Cerebral Abscess and Cephenemyia phobifer in a Mule Deer in Central Nebraska

Authors

Jerre L. Johnson, West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte
John B. Campbell, West Central Research and Extension Center, North PlatteFollow
Alan R. Doster, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
George Nason, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission
R. J. Cagne, SEL, USDA, Beltsville

Date of this Version

1983

Comments

Published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases19:3 (1983), pp. 279-280.

Abstract

A wild yearling male mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from south central Nebraska was submitted to the University of Nebraska North Platte Station Diagnostic Laboratory with the history of severe depression, slight incoordination, and visual impairment. Gross examination revealed a large abcess involving approximately 65-75% of the cebral hemispheres of the brain and approximately bots in the retropharyngeal pouches.