| borrelia burgdorferi infection in white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus) in hemlock (tsuga canadensis) habitat in western pennsylvania. | white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus) were captured and their tissues sampled from 27 sites in seven counties of western pennsylvania in 1990 for isolation and identification of borrelia burgdorferi. two hundred sixty mice were captured from which there were 27 isolations. significantly more mice were captured and significantly more isolations made from hemlock (tsuga canadensis) habitat than from deciduous species forest. hemlock habitat is sparse and focal but evidently increases winter surv ... | 1992 | 1512867 |
| distribution of borrelia burgdorferi in host mice in pennsylvania. | host mice (peromyscus leucopus and peromyscus maniculatus) were sampled throughout the state of pennsylvania to determine the geographical and ecological distribution of the lyme disease spirochete borrelia burgdorferi. all 67 counties of the state were sampled. a total of 1,619 mice were captured from a total of 157 sites during the period 1990 to 1993 for an overall capture rate of 29.69%. a total of 112 (6.92%) isolations of b. burgdorferi were made. the distribution of isolations revealed th ... | 1994 | 7814489 |
| hantavirus pulmonary syndrome associated with monongahela virus, pennsylvania. | the first two recognized cases of rapidly fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in pennsylvania occurred within an 8-month period in 1997. illness in the two patients was confirmed by immunohistochemical techniques on autopsy material. reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis of tissue from one patient and environmentally associated peromyscus leucopus (white-footed mouse) identified the monongahela virus variant. physicians should be vigilant for such monongahela virus-associated ... | 2000 | 11076720 |
| complex life cycle of pterygodermatites peromysci, a trophically transmitted parasite of the white-footed mouse (peromyscus leucopus). | the aim of this study is to experimentally verify the intermediate host of a common gastrointestinal nematode, pterygodermatites peromysci, infecting the white-footed mouse (peromyscus leucopus) and describe the complex life cycle. as with other nematodes in the family rictulariidae, adult worms reside in the small intestine of the host, and infective eggs are shed into the environment where they are ingested by scavenger insects. a field survey of common nocturnal insects on the forest floors o ... | 2011 | 21766236 |
| dynamics of hantavirus infection in peromyscus leucopus of central pennsylvania. | abstract hantaviruses are distributed throughout the united states and are the etiologic agents for hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. hantavirus genotypes and epidemiologic patterns vary spatially across the united states. while several longitudinal studies have been performed in the western united states, little is known about the virus in the eastern united states. we undertook a longitudinal study of hantaviruses in the primary rodent reservoir host in c ... | 2011 | 21756028 |