Some studies on gastrointestinal parasites infecting deer [Dorcas gazelles] in matrouh governorate

In this study, fecal samples were collected directly after defecation from living Egyptian deer, Dorcas gazelles. Twenty-eight out of 63 fecal samples harbored gastrointestinal nematode eggs. The positive fecal samples were cultured to collect the infective third stage larvae [L3] for taxonomic identification. They were Trichostrongylus colubriformis, Ostertagia ostertatgi and Oesophagostomum venulosum