title: Isolation of encysted Toxoplasma gondii from musculature of moose and pronghorn in Montana.
abstract: Pieces of skeletal muscle from 43 mule deer, 34 elk, 4 white-tailed deer, 21 pronghorn, 7 moose, and 2 bison were examined for Toxoplasma infection, by the acid-pepsin digestion technique. Toxoplasma gondii was isolated from 1 moose and 1 pronghorn. The isolated strains of T gondii were of low virulence to mice.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D051379:Mice; D009009:Montana; D009132:Muscles / Q000469:parasitology*; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014124:Toxoplasmosis, Animal / Q000469:parasitology*