| experimental infection of potential reservoir hosts with venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, mexico. | in 1993, an outbreak of encephalitis among 125 affected equids in coastal chiapas, mexico, resulted in a 50% case-fatality rate. the outbreak was attributed to venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (veev) subtype ie, not previously associated with equine disease and death. to better understand the ecology of this veev strain in chiapas, we experimentally infected 5 species of wild rodents and evaluated their competence as reservoir and amplifying hosts. rodents from 1 species (baiomys musculus) s ... | 2009 | 19331726 |