Susceptibility of white-tailed deer to experimental heartwater infections. Academic Article

abstract

• Nine white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were experimentally infected with Cowdria ruminantium, the causal agent of heartwater. All deer developed clinical signs; one was killed, one was treated, and seven died within 2 wk postinoculation. Diagnosis of heartwater was based on clinical signs, postmortem lesions and by microscopic observation of C. ruminantium in endothelial cells of brain capillaries of dead animals. Cowdria ruminantium was passaged by collecting blood from deer at the height of the febrile response and intravenous inoculation of susceptible deer and goats. Tetracycline was effective in the treatment of heartwater in a deer.

authors

• Logan, Linda

published proceedings

• J Wildl Dis

author list (cited authors)

• Dardiri, A. H., Logan, L. L., & Mebus, C. A.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Dardiri, AH||Logan, LL||Mebus, CA

publication date

• April 1987

publisher

• Wildlife Disease Association  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Wildlife Diseases  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Deer
• Disease Susceptibility
• Female
• Goats
• Heartwater Disease
• Male
• Rickettsiaceae

PubMed Central ID

• 3586199

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.7589/0090-3558-23.2.215

start page

• 215

end page

• 219

volume

• 23

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-23.2.215

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being