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A search for Parelaphostrongylus andersoni in white-tailed deer from Maine
1Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Maine, Orono 04469.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
Longissimus dorsi muscles from 42 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from Maine (USA) were examined for the Parelaphostrongylus andersoni. No adult nematodes were found. Prevalence based on the Poisson approximation of a binomial distribution could have been between 0 and 9% (95% C.I.). However, based on prevalence documented elsewhere (10 to 18%), it is unlikely that P. andersoni occurs in white-tailed deer in central Maine.