SEROLOGIC SURVEY OF SELECTED PATHOGENS IN WHITE-TAILED AND MULE DEER IN WESTERN NEBRASKA

Authors

Jerre L. Johnson, University of Nebraska West Central Research and Extension, North Platte
T. Lynwood Barber, USDA-ARS, 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(4), 1986, pp. 515-519.

Abstract

Exposure of free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in western Nebraska to selected livestock pathogens was determined by serology and attempted virus isolation. Antibodies to bluetongue virus, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, and bovine respiratory syncytial virus were present in both species of deer. No serologic reactors to Brucella or Anaplasma were found. Attempts to isolate bluetongue virus were negative.