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removing deer mice from buildings and the risk for human exposure to sin nombre virus.	trapping and removing deer mice from ranch buildings resulted in an increased number of mice, including sin nombre virus antibody-positive mice, entering ranch buildings. mouse removal without mouse proofing will not reduce and may even increase human exposure to sin nombre hantavirus.	2003	12643840
the effect of seasonality, density and climate on the population dynamics of montana deer mice, important reservoir hosts for sin nombre hantavirus.	1. since sin nombre virus was discovered in the u.s. in 1993, longitudinal studies of the rodent reservoir host, the deer mouse (peromyscus maniculatus) have demonstrated a qualitative correlation among mouse population dynamics and risk of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) in humans, indicating the importance of understanding deer mouse population dynamics for evaluating risk of hps. 2. using capture-mark-recapture statistical methods on a 15-year data set from montana, we estimated deer mous ...	2010	20015212
sin nombre hantavirus decreases survival of male deer mice.	how pathogens affect their hosts is a key question in infectious disease ecology, and it can have important influences on the spread and persistence of the pathogen. sin nombre virus (snv) is the etiological agent of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) in humans. a better understanding of snv in its reservoir host, the deer mouse, could lead to improved predictions of the circulation and persistence of the virus in the mouse reservoir, and could help identify the factors that lead to increased h ...	2012	22218940