ABSTRACT
Between November 2000 and November 2005, approximately 200 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from western Nebraska were extensively examined for the presence of Elaeophora schneideri, Wehr and Dikmans, 1935; three adult E. schneideri were detected from three mule deer. This represents the first documented occurrence of E. schneideri from wild deer in Nebraska.
Subject(s)
Deer/parasitology , Filariasis/veterinary , Animals , Animals, Wild/parasitology , Disease Reservoirs/veterinary , Filariasis/epidemiology , Filarioidea/isolation & purification , Male , Nebraska/epidemiologyABSTRACT
One hundred seventy-eight white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and 275 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) collected from locker plants in the western 2/3 of Nebraska (USA) in November 1997 were examined for the meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis). Parelaphostrongylus tenuis was identified in 17 (10%) of 168 white-tailed deer and in one (<1%) of 273 mule deer. This is the first naturally occurring infection of P. tenuis recorded in a mule deer.
Subject(s)
Deer/parasitology , Metastrongyloidea/isolation & purification , Strongylida Infections/veterinary , Animals , Brain/parasitology , Brain/pathology , Dura Mater/parasitology , Dura Mater/pathology , Female , Male , Nebraska/epidemiology , Strongylida Infections/epidemiology , Strongylida Infections/parasitologyABSTRACT
The meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) was found in 22 (7%) of 300 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (257 adults, 43 fawns) examined from Nebraska (USA) during November 1996. None of 53 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) (47 adults and 6 fawns) examined were infected. Twenty-two white-tailed deer from 18 counties in eastern Nebraska were infected with Parelaphostrongylus tenuis. This is the first record of P. tenuis in white-tailed deer from this state.
Subject(s)
Brain/parasitology , Deer/parasitology , Metastrongyloidea/isolation & purification , Strongylida Infections/veterinary , Animals , Animals, Wild , Female , Male , Nebraska/epidemiology , Strongylida Infections/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Lymph nodes from 271 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in Nebraska (USA) were examined microscopically for tuberculoid lesions. Lymph nodes lesions in at least one node were found in 12 deer. Lesions were examined with Zeihl-Neelson acid fast stains and by polymerase chain reactions using M. bovis specific probes. No evidence of tuberculosis was found. The small granulomatous lesions were likely caused by other bacteria.
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Deer , Lymph Nodes/pathology , Mycobacterium bovis/isolation & purification , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification , Tuberculosis/veterinary , Animals , Animals, Wild , Lymph Nodes/microbiology , Nebraska/epidemiology , Tuberculosis/epidemiologyABSTRACT
In 1971, 1983 and 1984, ectoparasites were identified on 61 ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) from Nebraska. Birds were collected throughout the state from 11 of 93 counties. Four species of chewing lice (Mallophaga) were collected: Lipeurus maculosus, Goniodes colchici, Lagopoecus colchicus and Amyrsidea megalosoma. One species of analgid mite, Megninia sp. was collected. Apparently, this species is new and undescribed. The four mallophagan species have not been reported from Nebraska.
