SEROSURVEY FOR SELECTED PATHOGENS IN HUNTER-KILLED PRONGHORNS IN WESTERN NEBRASKA

Authors

Jerre L. Johnson, University of Nebraska West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platt
T. Lynwood Barber, ARS, USDA, Denver
Merwin L. Frey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
George Nason, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Date of this Version

1986

Comments

Published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases 22(1). 1986. pp. 87-90.

Abstract

Exposure of pronghorns (Antilocapra americana) in western Nebraska in 1983 to selected livestock pathogens was examined by serology and attempted virus isolation. Antibodies were present to the agents of bluetongue, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, and bovine respiratory syncytial virus. There were no serologic reactors to Brucella, and attempts to isolate the viruses of bluetongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease were negative.