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1 October 1990 SURVEY OF HEPATIC AND PULMONARY HELMINTHS OF WILD CERVIDS IN ALBERTA, CANADA
M. J. Pybus
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Abstract

During the 1988 hunting season, livers and lungs from 263 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus), 198 moose (Alces alces), 147 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and 94 wapiti (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) from Alberta (Canada) were collected for parasitological examination. Most of the samples (89%) were submitted by big game hunters throughout the province. Giant liver fluke (Fascioloides magna) was found in 9% of 22 yearling and 29% of 65 adult wapiti; 4% of 161 adult moose; and 2% of 97 adult white-tailed deer. The intensity of infection generally was low; however, one wapiti had over 600 flukes in the liver. Infections were restricted to alpine and montane regions in southwestern Alberta (97%) as well as boreal uplands of the Cypress Hills in southeastern Alberta (3%). Other parasites recorded included Taenia hydatigena cysts in liver of 61% of 191 moose and 14% of 247 mule deer. Dictyocaulus viviparus was found in lungs of 14% of 50 moose, 14% of 118 mule deer, 12% of 41 wapiti, and 6% of 54 white-tailed deer. Echinococcus granulosus cysts were found in lungs (and occasionally liver) of 37% of 51 moose. Incidental infections of Thysanosoma actinoides, Orthostrongylus macrotis, and Taenia omissa were recorded. Adult Dicrocoelium dendriticum were collected from liver of two wapiti, one mule deer, and one white-tailed deer from the Cypress Hills.

M. J. Pybus "SURVEY OF HEPATIC AND PULMONARY HELMINTHS OF WILD CERVIDS IN ALBERTA, CANADA," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 26(4), 453-459, (1 October 1990). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-26.4.453
Received: 26 June 1989; Published: 1 October 1990
KEYWORDS
Alces alces
Cervus elaphus nelsoni
Dicrocoelium dendriticum
Fascioloides magna
helminths
lungs and liver infection
Odocoileus hemionus hemionus
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