PRENATAL INFECTION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SHEEP (Ovis c. canadensis) OF ALBERTA WITH THE LUNGWORM Protostrongylus spp.

C. C. GATES; W. M. Samuel

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-13.3.248

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1 July 1977 PRENATAL INFECTION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SHEEP (Ovis c. canadensis) OF ALBERTA WITH THE LUNGWORM Protostrongylus spp.

C. C. GATES, W. M. Samuel

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 13(3):248-250 (1977). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-13.3.248

Abstract

First- and third-stage (infective) larvae of Protostrongylus spp. were recovered from the livers of four fetuses of the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep of Alberta. This record suggests a more cosmopolitan distribution of prenatal infection with lungworms in bighorn sheep than suspected previously.

GATES and SAMUEL: PRENATAL INFECTION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SHEEP (Ovis c. canadensis) OF ALBERTA WITH THE LUNGWORM Protostrongylus spp.

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C. C. GATES and W. M. Samuel "PRENATAL INFECTION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SHEEP (Ovis c. canadensis) OF ALBERTA WITH THE LUNGWORM Protostrongylus spp.," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 13(3), 248-250, (1 July 1977). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-13.3.248

Received: 4 April 1977; Published: 1 July 1977

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