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EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF IMMATURE MULE DEER WITH Elaeophora schneideri
1 Wild Animal Disease Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80521, U.S.A.
2 New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Santa Fe 87501, U.S.A.
Five neonatal mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and five yearling mule deer were experimentally infected with Elaeorphora schneideri. Infections ranging from 2 to 31 parasites established in 9 of 10 animals. Evidence of elaeophorosis was not observed in any animal, indicating that mule deer are normal definitive hosts.
Submitted on August 15, 1973
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