| interspecific differences between small mammals as hosts of immature dermacentor variabilis (acari: ixodidae) and a model for detection of high risk areas of rocky mountain spotted fever. | fourteen species of small mammals were captured from july 1990 through august 1991 in tennessee, from which 1,217 immature dermacentor variabilis and 1 ixodes dentatus were collected. mammal species were given scores of importance (ts) as hosts to immature d. variabilis based on mean intensity and prevalence. the rice rat ranked the highest, with a ts = 5, followed by the golden mouse ts = 4, white-footed mouse ts = 3, pine vole ts = 2, cotton rat ts = 1, with the norway rat, house mouse, and sh ... | 1996 | 8885876 |
| parasitic and phoretic arthropods of sylvatic and commensal white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus) in central tennessee, with notes on lyme disease. | sixteen species of parasitic or phoretic arthropods were collected from 56 white-footed mice, peromyscus leucopus, live-trapped in central tennessee from april through november 1987. arthropod infestation was compared for mice taken from sylvatic (woodland) versus commensal (household) habitats. three species were recorded from hosts in both habitats: the sucking louse hoplopleura hesperomydis, the flea epitedia wenmanni, and the laelapid mite androlaelaps casalis. twelve of the 13 remaining art ... | 1991 | 2010854 |
| new host of ixodes dentatus (acari: ixodidae), and first record in tennessee. | two specimens of ixodes dentatus marx were found in southwestern tennessee in shelby county during a 14-mo tick survey. this was the first record for this tick in tennessee. an adult female was found on a dry ice trap and one larva was found on a live-trapped peromyscus leucopus, the first time this tick has been reported from p. leucopus. this may be another combination of vector and host in the ecology and transmission of b. burgdorferi in the wild. | 1992 | 1495084 |