Volume 6, Number 4—August 2000
Dispatch
Ehrlichia chaffeensis Antibodies in White-Tailed Deer, Iowa, 1994 and 1996
Table 1
Geographic distribution of deer blood specimens collected and estimated deer population, Iowa, 1994 and 1996
| Region | 1994 |
1996 |
Pop. increase (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Est. pop. | No. sampled | % sampled | Est. pop. | No. sampled | % sampled | ||
| North | 75,252 | 444 | 25.0 | 99,531 | 318 | 28.9 | 32.3 |
| Central | 107,344 | 617 | 34.8 | 120,134 | 374 | 33.9 | 11.9 |
| South | 140,470 | 714 | 40.2 | 148,569 | 410 | 37.2 | 5.8 |
| Iowa | 323,067 | 1,775 | 100.0 | 368,234 | 1,102 | 100.0 | 14.0 |


