Isolation of encysted Toxoplasma gondii from muscles of mule deer in Montana.

J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1982 Dec 15;181(12):1535.

Toxoplasma gondii was isolated from muscles of 2 road-killed mule deer found near Bozeman, Mont, by feeding muscles to a Toxoplasma-free cat. The cat shed T gondii oocysts 5 days after ingesting muscles pooled from the 2 deer. One infective oocyst of this isolate of T gondii was lethal to mice.