Multifactorial mortality in bongos and other wild ungulates in the north of the Congo Republic
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Elkan, P.W.
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Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria.
Abstract
Wildlife mortality involving bongos, Tragelaphus eurycerus, and other
ungulates was investigated in the north of the Congo Republic in 1997.
Four bongos, one forest buffalo, Syncerus caffer nanus, and one domestic
sheep were examined and sampled. Although an outbreak of rinderpest had
been suspected, it was found that the animals, which had been weakened
by an Elaeophora sagitta infection and possibly also by adverse
climatic conditions, had been exsanguinated and driven to exhaustion by
an unusual plague of Stomoxys omega.
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Veterinary medicine, Bongo, Chrysops sp., Elaeophora sagitta, Fainia elongata, Forest buffalo, Glossina brevipalpis, Sheep, Stomoxys omega, Syncerus caffer nanus, Tragelaphus eurycerus
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Huchzermeyer, FW, Penrith, ML & Elkan, PW 2001, 'Multifactorial mortality in bongos and other wild ungulates in the north of the Congo Republic’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 263-269.