| host associations of ticks (acari: ixodidae) parasitizing medium-sized mammals in a lyme disease endemic area of southern new york. | ticks of eight medium-sized mammal species were studied in an area of endemic lyme disease in westchester county, n.y., from 1 april 1984 to 31 march 1985. most (81%) of the 266 total mammal captures were raccoon, procyon lotor (l.) (47%), opossum, didelphis virginiana (kerr) (19%), and striped skunk, mephitis mephitis schreber (15%); these host species accounted for 91% of the 1,519 ticks collected. although the total number of ticks was rather evenly distributed among these mammals, species co ... | 1989 | 2724317 |
| serologic evidence of exposure of wild mammals to flaviviruses in the central and eastern united states. | serosurveys were conducted to obtain flavivirus and west nile virus (wnv) seroprevalence data from mammals. sera from 513 small- and medium-sized mammals collected during late summer and fall 2003 from colorado, louisiana, new york, ohio, and pennsylvania were screened for flavivirus-specific antibodies. sera samples containing antibody to flaviviruses were screened for wnv-specific antibodies by epitope-blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and confirmed with plaque reduction neutralizati ... | 2005 | 15891139 |
| an experimental test of competition among mice, chipmunks, and squirrels in deciduous forest fragments. | mixed hardwood forests of the northeast united states support a guild of granivorous/omnivorous rodents including gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis), eastern chipmunks (tamias striatus), and white-footed mice (peromyscus leucopus). these species coincide geographically, co-occur locally, and consume similar food resources. despite their idiosyncratic responses to landscape and patch variables, patch occupancy models suggest that competition may influence their respective distributions and abu ... | 2013 | 23824654 |
| poisoning of wildlife with anticoagulant rodenticides in new york. | from 1971 through 1997, we documented 51 cases (55 individual animals) of poisoning of non-target wildlife in new york (plus two cases in adjoining states) (usa) with anticoagulant rodenticides--all but two of these cases occurred in the last 8 yrs. brodifacoum was implicated in 80% of the incidents. diphacinone was identified in four cases, bromadiolone in three cases (once in combination with brodifacoum), and chlorophacinone and coumatetralyl were detected once each in the company of brodifac ... | 1999 | 10231745 |
| subtyping novel zoonotic pathogen cryptosporidium chipmunk genotype i. | cryptosporidium chipmunk genotype i is an emerging zoonotic pathogen in humans. the lack of subtyping tools makes it impossible to determine the role of zoonotic transmission in epidemiology. to identify potential subtyping markers, we sequenced the genome of a human chipmunk genotype i isolate. altogether, 9,509,783 bp of assembled sequences in 853 contigs were obtained, with an n50 of 117,886 bp and >200-fold coverage. based on the whole-genome sequence data, two genetic markers encoding the 6 ... | 2015 | 25762767 |