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Table 6.

Locality records of presumed Baylisascaris melis from North American badgers (Taxidea taxus).

Location	No. infected/No. examined	Source
Minnesota^a	1/8^b	Erickson 1946
Iowa^a	29/NG	Wittrock and Ulmer 1974
North Dakota^a	6/17	Leiby et al., 1971
Kansas^a	10/30	Pence and Dowler 1979
Wisconsin^a	2/4	Morgan 1943
South Dakota^a	NG	Jense 1968
Colorado^a	NG	Leiby 1961
Wyoming	1 roadkill badger, 1 captive badger	Tiner 1953a

NG=Not given.

Identified as Ascaris columnaris but are assumed to be B. melis.

2 of the 8 badgers had been in captivity for 2 years.