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1 April 1987 EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS OF ANAPLASMA OVIS IN PRONGHORN ANTELOPE
Jerry L. Zaugg
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Abstract

Anaplasma ovis was experimentally transmitted from sheep to pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) and back to sheep. Anaplasma ovis was recovered in splenectomized sheep, from two of three spleen-intact pronghorns following their inoculation with blood from known A. ovis carrier sheep. These two pronghorns exhibited a 0.5% or higher A. ovis parasitemia within 48 days after exposure, and an anaplasmosis-positive serological response 91 days after exposure. Clinical signs of illness were not observed. Blood from the infected pronghorns produced disease in four splenectomized sheep.

Zaugg: EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS OF ANAPLASMA OVIS IN PRONGHORN ANTELOPE
Jerry L. Zaugg "EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS OF ANAPLASMA OVIS IN PRONGHORN ANTELOPE," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 23(2), 205-210, (1 April 1987). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-23.2.205
Received: 8 July 1986; Published: 1 April 1987
KEYWORDS
Anaplasma ovis
anaplasmosis
Antilocapra americana
experimental infection
pronghorn antelope
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