| arthropod succession on exposed carrion in three contrasting tropical habitats on hawaii island, hawaii. | decomposition studies were conducted using domestic pig carcasses to determine arthropod succession patterns on exposed carrion for the island of hawaii. the carcasses were placed in upland forest and woodland (1,877 m), rainforest (1,169 m) and midelevation woodlands (646 m) habitats. marked differences in species composition, rates of biomass removal, and succession patterns were observed between these 3 sites. these results also differed from patterns observed during previous decomposition st ... | 1997 | 9151499 |
| seroprevalence of noroviruses in swine. | noroviruses (nvs) are important human pathogens that cause acute gastroenteritis. genetically related animal enteric nvs have also been described, but there is no evidence of interspecies transmission of nvs. in this study we characterized antibody prevalence among domestic pigs by using recombinant capsid antigens of two human nvs (norwalk and hawaii) and one swine nv (sw918) that is genetically related to gii human nvs. recombinant sw918 capsid protein expressed in baculovirus self-assembled i ... | 2005 | 15695660 |
| variation of aujeszky's disease viruses in wild swine in usa. | in the united states of america, aujeszky's disease (pseudorabies) has been eradicated from all domestic swine. some re-emergence of infection occurred as vaccine use diminished. sporadic outbreaks have also occurred because of the reservoir of infection in feral swine that have spread across the southern two-thirds of the country and hawaii. in order to be able to understand the origins of re-emerging virus, sequence analysis of variable genes in pseudorabies virus (prv) has been used to differ ... | 2010 | 20444559 |
| an initial investigation into the ecology of culturable aerobic postmortem bacteria. | postmortem microorganisms are increasingly recognized for their potential to serve as physical evidence. yet, we still understand little about the ecology of postmortem microbes, particularly those associated with the skin and larval masses. we conducted an experiment to characterize microbiological and chemical properties of decomposing swine (sus scrofa domesticus) carcasses on the island of oahu, hawaii, usa, during june 2013. bacteria were collected from the head, limb, and larval mass durin ... | 2015 | 26654073 |
| preliminary observations of arthropods associated with buried carrion on oahu. | several studies in hawaii have focused on arthropod succession and decomposition patterns of surface remains, but the current research presents the first study to focus on shallow burials in this context. three domestic pig carcasses (sus scrofa l.) were buried at the depths of 20-40 cm in silty clay loam soil on an exposed ridge on the leeward side of the volcanically formed koolau mountain range. one carcass was exhumed after 3 weeks, another after 6 weeks, and the last carcass was exhumed aft ... | 2015 | 25413711 |