| survey for ixodes spp. and borrelia burgdorferi in southeastern wisconsin and northeastern illinois. | forested areas adjacent to milwaukee, wis., and chicago, ill., were investigated for rodents and ticks infected with borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of lyme disease. white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus or peromyscus maniculatus), meadow voles (microtus pennsylvanicus), and eastern chipmunks (tamias striatus) were captured; and specimens from these animals were cultured for b. burgdorferi to define whether the midwestern lyme disease area currently encompasses these large metropolita ... | 1991 | 2007650 |
| serologic and virologic evidence of a prospect hill-like hantavirus in wisconsin and minnesota. | the purposes of this study were to determine if hantaviruses were present in the great lakes port areas of wisconsin and minnesota and if so, to identify which virus and which rodent host species were involved. rodents were trapped in duluth, minnesota, superior, green bay, and milwaukee, wisconsin, all ports of call for international maritime shipping. a total of 675 wild rodents were captured and tested, including 310 meadow voles (microtus pennsylvanicus), 173 norway rats (rattus norvegicus), ... | 1994 | 7943546 |
| molecular characterization of borrelia spp. isolates from greater metropolitan chicago reveals the presence of borrelia bissettii. preliminary report. | lyme disease in the us is concentrated in three endemic areas: the northeast, the upper mid-west, and the pacific coast. in the mid-west, the range of lyme disease has expanded to include large parts of wisconsin and minnesota. despite its proximity to the mid-western focus, illinois, so far, has not been considered an endemic area. however, more recent data suggest that this situation may be changing. also, the extent of borrelial diversity in the mid-west remains largely unexplored. here, we p ... | 2000 | 11075925 |
| kawasaki syndrome: a controlled study of an outbreak in wisconsin. | the etiology of kawasaki syndrome remains unestablished, although a possible role has been suggested for exposure to the application of carpet shampoo, house dust mites, and rickettsial infection. during an outbreak of 20 cases of kawasaki syndrome that occurred in southeastern wisconsin from november 1982 through march 1983, a case-control study was done of 15 cases and 30 matched controls. the study included questionnaire administration, dust collection from homes, and serum specimen collectio ... | 1986 | 3728445 |
| borrelia burgdorferi infection in dairy cows, rodents, and birds from four wisconsin dairy farms. | a combination of culture and subsequent spirochete identification with the polymerase chain reaction technique was used to identify cows, rodents, and birds infected with borrelia burgdorferi. animals were trapped on four wisconsin dairy farms during the summer of 1990. farms 1 and 2 were located in counties nonendemic for lyme disease and farms 3 and 4 were located in counties endemic for lyme disease. the results of the rodent and bird samples were as follows given as the number yielding organ ... | 1993 | 8362496 |
| description of paranoplocephala etholeni n. sp. (cestoda: anoplocephalidae) in the meadow vole microtus pennsylvanicus, with a synopsis of paranoplocephala s. l. in holarctic rodents. | paranoplocephala etholeni n. sp., parasitizing the meadow vole microtus pennsylvanicus in alaska and wisconsin, usa, is described. paranoplocephala etholeni is morphologically most closely related to the nearctic paranoplocephala ondatrae (rausch, 1948). available data suggest that p. etholeni is a host-specific, locally rare species that may have a wide but sporadic geographical distribution in north america. the finding of p. ondatrae-like cestodes in microtus spp. suggests that this poorly kn ... | 2002 | 12514944 |
| enzootic transmission of deer tick virus in new england and wisconsin sites. | to determine whether rodents that are intensely exposed to the deer tick-transmitted agents of lyme disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, and human babesiosis are also exposed to deer tick virus (dtv), we assayed serum samples from white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus) and meadow voles (microtus pennsylvanicus) in sites densely infested by deer ticks. to conduct serosurveys, we developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) and western blot assay by cloning, expressing, and purifyi ... | 2000 | 11357992 |