@article{Lankester_Smits_Pybus_Fong_Haigh_1990, title={EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF FALLOW DEER (DAMA DAMA) WITH ELAPHOSTRONGYLINE NEMATODES (NEMATODA: PHOSTRONGYLIDAE) FROM CARIBOU (RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU) IN NEWFOUNDLAND}, volume={26}, url={https://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/view/1171}, abstractNote={<p>Five fallow deer fawns (<em>Dama </em>dama) were given 25 to 150 infective larvae of elaphostrongyline nematodes originating from wild caribou (<em>Rangifer tarandus caribou</em>) in Newfoundland. The inoculum contained infected larvae of both <em>Elaphostrongylus cervi</em> (<em>E. c. rangiferi</em> in the sense of Pryadko and Boev 1971) and <em>Parelaphostrongylus andersoni</em> Prestwood, 1972. No animal showed clinical signs of disease.</p> <p>At necropsy, all exposed deer exhibited a mild, to focally intense, eosinophilic meningitis indication helminthic invasion of the CNS. A male <em>E. cervi</em> and fragments of a female nematode were recovered from the brain and spinal cord, respectively, of one animal. Fragments of nematodes identified as <em>P.</em> <em>andersoni</em> were found in the longissimus dorsi muscles of this same animal as well as in one other. Three deer, including the two in which worms were found, passed dorsal-spined larvae in their feces, 69-75 days after infection. Larvae were 331-410μ long (x̄=378μ).</p> <p>Apparently <em>E. cervi</em> can migrate as far as the CNS of fallow deer. Results also reveal, for the first time, that fallow deer are suitable hosts of <em>P. andersoni</em>, a muscleworm which is widely distributed in wild cervids of North America.</p>}, journal={Alces: A Journal Devoted to the Biology and Management of Moose}, author={Lankester, Murray W. and Smits, Judit E. G. and Pybus, Margo J. and Fong, David and Haigh, Jerry C.}, year={1990}, month={Jan.}, pages={154–162} }