An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle. Anaplasma ovis was experimentally transmitted from sheep to a splenectomized and a spleen-intact mule deer, and back to sheep. The pathogenesis in deer was very similar to that seen in sheep using ovine blood inoculations.

Anaplasma marginale, anaplasmosis, Anaplasma ovis, experimental infection, mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus hemionus, pathogenesis, splenectomized deer
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