| fleas (siphonaptera) of cotton mice on a georgia barrier island: a depauperate fauna. | from february 1993 through october 1994, 382 cotton mice peromyscus gossypinus were live-trapped and examined for fleas on st. catherines island, liberty county, georgia. orchopeas leucopus was the only species of flea collected, with an overall prevalence of 27% and a mean intensity of 3.8. this flea was more abundant on cotton mice during the cooler months, with peak infestation indices recorded in march 1993 and in january 1994. five species of fleas (polygenis gwyni, stenoponia americana, ct ... | 1995 | 7623192 |
| natural occurrence and characterization of the lyme disease spirochete, borrelia burgdorferi, in cotton rats (sigmodon hispidus) from georgia and florida. | this is the first report of natural infection by borrelia burgdorferi in the cotton rat sigmodon hispidus. nine b. burgdorferi isolates were obtained from ear tissues, urinary bladders, or both, by culturing tissues in bskii medium. the rat from which the si-3 isolate was cultured was from the same site (sapelo island, georgia) as an infected cotton mouse peromyscus gossypinus and ixodes scapularis tick reported previously. the 8 b. burgdorferi isolates from rats in florida included 1 (ai-1) fro ... | 1995 | 7876974 |
| serologic evidence of infection with ehrlichia spp. in wild rodents (muridae: sigmodontinae) in the united states. | rodent (muridae: sigmodontinae) blood and sera collected from 14 states were tested for seroreactivity to a cultured isolate of the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (hge) agent by using an indirect immunofluorescence assay. of the 1,240 samples tested, 136 (11%) were found to be reactive at titers of > or = 32. rodents with hge agent-specific antibodies were found in new york (23% of 491 samples; geometric mean endpoint titer [gmt] = 441), connecticut (11% of 100 samples; gmt = 481), california ( ... | 1998 | 9508298 |
| antibodies to granulocytic ehrlichiae in white-footed and cotton mice in eastern united states. | serum samples, collected from peromyscus leucopus (white-footed mouse) or peromyscus gossypinus (cotton mouse) during 1987 through 1990 in florida, georgia, maryland, mississippi, and north carolina (usa), and in 1997 in southern connecticut were analyzed by indirect fluorescent antibody (ifa) staining methods or western blot procedures for antibodies to granulocytic ehrlichiae. of the 82 sera from white-footed mice in connecticut tested by ifa methods with either the bds or nch-1 strain of the ... | 1999 | 10231752 |
| genetic heterogeneity of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the southern united states based on restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequence analysis. | fifty-six strains of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, isolated from ticks and vertebrate animals in missouri, south carolina, georgia, florida, and texas, were identified and characterized by pcr-restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analysis of rrf (5s)-rrl (23s) intergenic spacer amplicons. a total of 241 to 258 bp of intergenic spacers between tandemly duplicated rrf (5s) and rrl (23s) was amplified by pcr. msei and drai restriction fragment polymorphisms were used to analyze these ... | 2001 | 11427560 |
| pathogenesis of experimental vesicular stomatitis virus (new jersey serotype) infection in the deer mouse (peromyscus maniculatus). | the pathogenesis of vesicular stomatitis virus (vsv) infection has not been investigated previously in native new world rodents that may have a role in the epidemiology of the disease. in the present study, 45 juvenile and 80 adult deer mice (peromyscus maniculatus) were inoculated intranasally with vsv new jersey serotype (vsv-nj) and examined sequentially over a 7-day period. virus was detected by means of immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization in all tissues containing histologic lesi ... | 2001 | 11467473 |
| prevalence of toxoplasmosis in wild animals from fort stewart, georgia, as indicated by serological tests and mouse inoculation. | | 1964 | 14196048 |
| suckling mouse cataract agent. | | 1964 | 14233139 |
| linking radiology equipment service and medical physics survey databases. | during the performance of medical physics surveys on diagnostic imaging equipment, it is not unusual to find problems requiring service. in the work described in this article, two existing and separate databases, one for radiology equipment maintenance and the other for medical physics surveys were linked. by linking the two databases we have closed the loop in our documentation. the two databases are integrated so that when logging a survey, a single mouse click will allow the user to initiate ... | 2004 | 14994833 |
| serum igm levels against select marine bacteria in the atlantic sharpnose shark (rhizoprionodon terraenovae) from three estuaries. | the atlantic sharpnose shark (rhizoprionodon terraenovae) is abundant and easily captured throughout the southeastern united states. therefore this species serves as an ideal model for generating basic immunological reagents to establish baseline information regarding the immunophysiology of sharks in the wild, and for attempting to correlate shark immune responses to potential pathogens with the quality of the habitat in which they reside. sharpnose shark serum igm was purified over a protein-a ... | 2006 | 16750427 |
| antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of polyphenolics from southeastern u.s. range blackberry cultivars. | the antioxidant and topical anti-inflammatory activities of low and high molecular weight phenolic fractions (lmpf and hmpf, respectively) isolated from three blackberry cultivars (i.e., navaho, kiowa, and ouachita), bred to tolerate the warm and humid climatic conditions of the southeastern united states, were investigated by the in vitro ferric reducing antioxidant power (frap) assay and an in vivo mouse ear edema model. seventy percent (v/v) acidified acetone was employed to extract phenolics ... | 2010 | 20415425 |
| ectoparasites and other epifaunistic arthropods of sympatric cotton mice and golden mice: comparisons and implications for vector-borne zoonotic diseases. | ectoparasite and epifaunistic arthropod biodiversity and infestation parameters were compared between 2 sympatric small rodent species, the cotton mouse (peromyscus gossypinus (le conte)) and golden mouse (ochrotomys nuttalli (harlan)), in southern georgia from 1992 to 2003. because the cotton mouse is known to be a reservoir of more vector-borne zoonotic pathogens than the golden mouse, we hypothesized that it would be parasitized by more ectoparasites that are known to be vectors of these path ... | 2004 | 15715219 |
| characterization of toxoplasma gondii isolates from an outbreak of toxoplasmosis in atlanta, georgia. | toxoplasma gondii was isolated from tissue of 5 of 7 cats and of 4 of 4 field mice trapped in a riding stable in atlanta where an outbreak of toxoplasmosis had occurred in persons. dye-test antibodies were not found in serum of 4 cats and 4 field mice shown to be infected with t gondii by mouse inoculation. the pathogenicity and infectivity of the 9 isolates of t gondii from cats and mice were compared in mice with the same characteristics of an isolate from a person who acquired toxoplasmosis i ... | 1981 | 7283229 |