| human babesiosis: reservoir in infection on nantucket island. | examination of blood films from six species of rodents and lagomorphs on nantucket island disclosed infections with babesia microti in all of five microtus pennsylvanicus (field mice) and 31 of 39 peromyscus leucopus (white-footed or deer mice). six human cases of clinical babesiosis have recently been diagnosed on the island. | 1976 | 769166 |
| splenomegaly and reticulocytosis caused by babesia microti infections in natural populations of the montane vole, microtus montanus. | a survey for babesia microti in rodents was conducted at six sites within grand teton national park, wyoming. blood and spleen smears, hematocrits, and reticulocyte counts were made on all of the animals to evaluate parameters for the diagnosis of babesiosis. ticks were removed for identification. of 257 microtus montanus, 103 were infected with b. microti. in addition, five of 12 microtus pennsylvanicus and one of three arvicola richardsoni were parasitized by b. microti. peromyscus maniculatus ... | 1991 | 1818201 |
| peromyscus leucopus and microtus pennsylvanicus simultaneously infected with borrelia burgdorferi and babesia microti. | borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of lyme disease, and babesia microti, the causative agent of human babesiosis, were isolated from 71 and 57%, respectively, of 14 specimens of peromyscus leucopus and microtus pennsylvanicus collected from prudence and patience islands, r.i. both pathogens were isolated from five individual rodents. the presence of these two infectious organisms in the same mammal suggests that individual larval ixodes dammini may ingest both pathogens and subsequently t ... | 1986 | 3517038 |
| prevalence of borrelia burgdorferi and babesia microti in mice on islands inhabited by white-tailed deer. | borrelia burgdorferi and babesia microti were isolated from 35 of 51 white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus) and meadow voles (microtus pennsylvanicus) captured on two narragansett bay, r.i., islands inhabited by deer, the principal host for the adult stages of the vector tick, ixodes dammini. immature ticks parasitized mice from both islands. from 105 mice captured on four other islands not inhabited by deer neither pathogen was isolated, nor were i. dammini found. | 1987 | 3555339 |