| wildlife and environmental health: raccoons as indicators of zoonoses and pollutants in southeastern united states. | inasmuch as terrestrial fauna are an integral part of our natural environment and are directly exposed to disease and pollutants, it follows that certain wild populations could serve to detect subtle alterations within ecosystems. a collection of studies on raccoons is presented to stimulate other researchers to develop the potential of our wildlife resources as monitors of environmental health. raccoons have been used as serologic sentinels for st louis encephalitis and venezuelan equine enceph ... | 1975 | 170239 |
| leptospirosis in selected wild mammals of the florida panhandle and southwestern georgia. | a group of 144 wild mammals, including white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbits, fox squirrels, gray squirrels, raccoons, opossums, a bobcat, and various small rodents was examined for cultural or serologic evidence of leptospiral infection. leptospires were isolated from 1 of 25 rabbits, 1 of 27 fox squirrels, 1 of 26 gray squirrels, 4 of 18 mice and rats, 8 of 21 raccoons, 7 of 17 opossums, and a bobcat. isolations were not made from 6 deer examined. serotypes isolated were leptospira interrogans ... | 1975 | 1176352 |
| fatal toxoplasmosis in domestic rabbits in the usa. | three rabbits from two sources died after an acute illness characterized by fever, lethargy and diarrhea in one rabbit and no clinical signs in two rabbits. the most striking lesion in all three rabbits was foci of necrosis of the spleen and liver associated with massive presence of multiplying toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites. the diagnosis was confirmed by specific staining with anti-t. gondii serum in an avidin-biotin complex immunohistochemical stain. | 1992 | 1466139 |
| rodent rabies in the united states. | | 1972 | 4577422 |
| current research activities on gonorrhea at the center for disease control. | | 1973 | 4631384 |
| serological comparison of the georgia and minnesota strains of infectious enteritis in turkeys. | | 1973 | 4697706 |
| presidential address to the american association of immunologists in atlanta, georgia, april 15, 1981. the era of the immunogeneticist. | | 1981 | 7028862 |
| tularemia: review of eight cases of tick-borne infection and the epidemiology of the disease in georgia. | in the period 1960 to 1979, 177 cases of tularemia occurred in residents of georgia. a tick bite was the implicated source of exposure in eight cases (4.5%), whereas 91 cases (51.4%) were associated with direct contact with infected rabbits. in georgia and other southeastern states, the epidemiology of human tularemia infection primarily involves rabbits. however, a diagnosis of tularemia should still be considered in this region in a febrile patient with or without a primary lesion or reported ... | 1982 | 7071635 |
| african-american factor vii-deficient variants in georgia (fvii variants). | we studied african-american factor (fvii)-deficient variants and carriers in georgia by measuring their levels of fvii antigen (fviiag) and fvii procoagulant (fviic). factor viiag was determined using enzyme-linked immunoassay (elisa), whereas fviic was measured in two ways: 1) by fibrin clotting methods that employed human recombinant (hrfviic), human placental (hpfviic), rabbit brain (rbfviic), and bovine brain (bbfviic) thromboplastins; and 2) by an amidolytic method (amfviic). prothrombin ti ... | 1994 | 7942793 |
| surveillance and spatiotemporal associations of rabies in rodents and lagomorphs in the united states, 1985-1994. | between 1985 and 1994, 368 cases of rabies in rodents (95% of reports) and lagomorphs (5%) were reported to the centers for disease control and prevention, atlanta, georgia (usa), from 22 states. this was a 354% increase from the period 1971 to 1984. most reports were cases of rabies in woodchucks (marmota monax) (n = 317), primarily from the eastern united states, which has been recently experiencing an epizootic of raccoon (procyon lotor) rabies. cases of rabies in woodchucks were temporally a ... | 1997 | 9027687 |
| natural history of ehrlichia chaffeensis (rickettsiales: ehrlichieae) in the piedmont physiographic province of georgia. | the roles of wild mammals and ticks in the epidemiology of ehrlichia chaffeensis at a suspected endemic site were investigated using serologic testing, culture, and polymerase chain reaction (pcr) supported by restriction endonuclease analysis and dna sequencing. antibodies reactive to e. chaffeensis (> or = 1:64) were detected in 92% of white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus), 21% of raccoons (procyon lotor), and 8% of opossums (didelphis virginianus), but not in 8 other species of mammals. ... | 1997 | 9379294 |
| an epidemic of corneal destruction caused by plasma gas sterilization. the toxic cell destruction syndrome investigative team. | toxic endothelial cell destruction (tecd) syndrome after intraocular ophthalmic surgery is rare and can result from exposure to a variety of toxins. during january 8 to 14, 1998, 6 patients developed tecd with corneal edema associated with unreactive or dilated pupils at hospital a. | 2000 | 10980761 |
| cloning of human picobirnavirus genomic segments and development of an rt-pcr detection assay. | nearly full-length genomic segments 2 and a partial-length genomic segment 1 of human picobirnavirus were cloned and sequenced. the clones were derived from viruses obtained from human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected patients in atlanta, georgia (strains 3-ga-91 and 4-ga-91) and a nonhiv-infected person from china (strain 1-chn-97). the picobirnavirus genomic segments lacked sequence similarities with other viral sequences in genbank and embl. comparison of genomic segment 1 from a human a ... | 2000 | 11080479 |
| ticks (acari: ixodidae) and spirochetes (spirochaetaceae: spirochaetales) recovered from birds on a georgia barrier island. | from september 1997 through july 1999, 300 individuals and 46 species of birds were mist-netted and screened for ticks and spirochetes on st. catherine's island, liberty county, ga. seventy-six (25%) of the birds were parasitized by a meal intensity of 4.6 ticks. seasonally, more birds were infested with ticks during the summer (50% in 1998, 34% in 1999) than in spring (15% in 1998, 11% in 1999) or fall (21% in 1997, 20% in 1998), mainly because of severe infestations on some birds by immature s ... | 2001 | 11296828 |
| 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 |
| isolation of blastomyces dermatitidis from natural sites at augusta, georgia. | | 1964 | 14205892 |
| suckling mouse cataract agent. | | 1964 | 14233139 |
| fleas parasitizing domestic dogs in georgia, usa: species composition and seasonal abundance. | monthly flea collections were made from domestic dogs in bulloch county, georgia, usa from september 1996 to august 2004. a total of 2518 fleas belonging to 8 species were collected. the most common flea was the cat flea, ctenocephalides felis (389 males and 1148 females), followed by the dog flea, ctenocephalides canis (250 males and 285 females), a generalist/carnivore flea, pulex simulans (106 males and 213 females), and a sticktight flea, echidnophaga gallinacea (3 males and 89 females). sma ... | 2005 | 15893082 |
| detection of babesia and anaplasma species in rabbits from texas and georgia, usa. | rabbits have been shown to harbor a suite of zoonotic organisms, including a babesia species, borrelia burgdorferi, and anaplasma phagocytophilum. in this study, we conducted a molecular survey for various tick-borne pathogens in three species of rabbits from texas and georgia. of 18 black-tailed jackrabbits (lepus californicus) tested from texas, six (28%) were polymerase chain reaction (pcr) positive for babesia, and nucleotide sequencing revealed two distinct species or strains. two jackrabbi ... | 2006 | 16584322 |
| relatedness of cytotoxins from geographically diverse isolates of moraxella bovis. | to determine whether amino acid sequence variation exists in the moraxella bovis (m. bovis) cytotoxin (mbxa) from geographically diverse m. bovis isolated in the united states, mbxa was amplified and sequenced. the mbxa deduced amino acid sequence from m. bovis originally isolated in california, washington, north carolina, and georgia, as well as reference strains of m. bovis isolated at the national animal disease laboratory, ames, ia, usa, all encoded a nearly identical 927 amino acid protein. ... | 2007 | 17540518 |