| gastro-intestinal helminths in white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) of illinois. | two deer populations, one in northern illinois the other in southern illinois, were examined by necropsy (n = 44 and 40 respectively) for helminth parasites of the gastro-intestinal tract and abdominal cavity. both herds were parasitized by apteragia odocoilei, haemonchus contortus, gongylonema pulchrum, setaria yehi, trichuris ovis, and moniezia benedeni. nematodirus sp. was found only in deer of northern illinois. ostertagia mossi, capillaria sp., cooperia sp., and oesophagostomum sp. were fou ... | 1979 | 501845 |
| prevalence and distribution of setaria yehi in southeastern white-tailed deer. | filarial worms, setaria yehi, were found in 286 of 1,045 white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) from 13 of 16 southeastern states. infections were widespread in the piedmont and coastal plain physiographic provinces, but rarely occurred in deer of the mountains or in southern florida. infections were significantly more prevalent among fawn and yearling deer. infections with s yehi largely accounted for a mild fibrinous peritonitis commonly observed among southeastern deer. | 1977 | 924868 |