Pooled blood samples from six white-tailed deer from the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia were inoculated into two splenectomized deer. A moderately severe clinical reaction ensued, characterized by a hemolytic anemia, and a Babesia found in both recipient animals was presumptively identified as B. odocoilei. This is the first reported identification of this parasite in white-tailed deer in Virginia.
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1 April 1985
BABESIA ODOCOILEI EMERSON AND WRIGHT, 1970 IN WHITE-TAILED DEER, ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS (ZIMMERMANN), IN VIRGINIA
B. D. Perry,
D. K. Nichols,
E. S. Cullom