| pneumocystosis in wild small mammals from california. | cyst forms of the opportunistic fungal parasite pneumocystis carinii were found in the lungs of 34% of the desert shrew, notiosorex crawfordi (n = 59), 13% of the ornate shrew, sorex ornatus (n = 55), 6% of the dusky-footed wood rat, neotoma fuscipes (n = 16), 2.5% of the california meadow vole, microtus californicus (n = 40), and 50% of the california pocket mouse, chaetodipus californicus (n = 2) caught from southern california between february 1998 and february 2000. cysts were not found in a ... | 2001 | 11310900 |
| microparasite assemblages of conspecific shrew populations in southern california. | the microparasite component communities of 2 species of shrews, notiosorex crawfordi and sorex ornatus, were investigated for the first time in 2 isolated and 3 continuous landscapes in southern california. with microscopical examination, a total of 6 parasite species was found in n. crawfordi and 8 species in s. ornatus. the highest number (5) of parasite species was detected in the lungs. the corrected estimate of parasite species richness did not significantly correlate with the host abundanc ... | 2003 | 14740903 |