Sudden Mortality in Captive White-Tailed Deer With Atypical Infestation of Winter Tick.
| Autor: | Machtinger ET; Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., Springer HR; Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., Brown JE; Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., Olafson PU; United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Kerrville, TX. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of medical entomology [J Med Entomol] 2021 Jul 16; Vol. 58 (4), pp. 1962-1965. |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jme/tjab043 |
| Abstrakt: | In October 2020, three captive male white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus [Zimmermann] (artiodactyla: Cervidae), were found dead in central Pennsylvania and a fourth was euthanized due to extreme lethargy. The deer presented with high burdens of Dermacentor albipictus (Packard) (Ixoda: Ixodidae) (winter tick). There were no other clinical symptoms and deer were in otherwise good physical condition with no observed alopecia. Winter tick epizootics have been associated with mortalities of moose, Alces alces [Linnaeus] (artiodactyla: cervidae), and more recently elk, Cervus canadensis [Erxleben] (artiodactyla: cervidae), in Pennsylvania, but have not been reported in white-tailed deer. Mild winters are favorable to winter ticks and deer producers and managers should be aware of possible infestations as a result. (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America.All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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