| 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 |
| tularemia pneumonia in washington, dc. a report of three cases with possible common-source exposures. | in june 1978, three cases of tularemia pneumonia occurred in persons residing in the washington, dc, area. the patients, all men, became ill three to four days after a brief session training their hunting dogs in an undeveloped wooded area adjacent to a housing complex. one of the dogs, which later died, had captured a wild rabbit during the training session. all three men had handled the rabbit while familiarizing their dogs with the rabbit's scent. the men had no other common exposure that was ... | 1979 | 573806 |
| isolation, enumeration, and characterization of aeromonas from polluted waters encountered in diving operations. | counts of total viable, aerobic, heterotrophic bacteria, indicator organisms, and aeromonas spp. were made at a diver training site on the anacostia river in washington, d.c. the numbers of aeromonas cells in anacostia river sediment and water increased during periods of elevated water temperature, to maxima of 4 x 10(5) cells per g of sediment and 300 cells per ml of water. correspondingly, aeromonas counts dropped 2 to 4 logs as the water temperature decreased to 0 to 0.5 degrees c. cultures t ... | 1980 | 7396482 |
| population genetic structure of ixodes pacificus (acari:ixodidae) using allozymes. | genetic analysis of the population structure of the western blacklegged tick, ixodes pacificus cooley & kohls, was conducted using allozymes. this vector tick transmits the lyme disease spirochete, borrelia burgdorferi johnson, schmid, hyde, steigerwalt & brenner, in the far-western united states. it ranges from british columbia to baja california and disjunct populations are present in oregon, nevada, utah, and arizona. host-seeking adult ticks were collected from vegetation across the range of ... | 1997 | 9220679 |
| 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 |
| observations on a group of viruses (jv-5, jv-6 and jv-10) comprising a newly recognized enterovirus serotype. | | 1964 | 14117623 |
| the population status of the larger vertebrates on the atomic energy commission savannah river plant site. tid-19562. | | 1964 | 14131058 |
| ectoparasites and associated pathogens of free-roaming and captive animals in zoos of south carolina. | a survey of ectoparasites and their associated pathogens was conducted in two south carolina zoos, from 2004 to 2007. dead, wild birds and mammals, as well as captive animals examined during routine veterinary checks constituted the study populations. ectoparasites were tested for species of anaplasma, bartonella, coxiella burnetii, ehrlichia, rickettsia, and trypanosoma. forty-six species of ectoparasites were collected from 133 free-roaming and captive hosts and their associated nesting and be ... | 2009 | 18973443 |
| exercise myoglobinemia and acute exertional rhabdomyolysis. | | 1974 | 4472107 |