| leptospirosis in selected wild mammals of the florida panhandle and southwestern georgia. | a group of 144 wild mammals, including white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbits, fox squirrels, gray squirrels, raccoons, opossums, a bobcat, and various small rodents was examined for cultural or serologic evidence of leptospiral infection. leptospires were isolated from 1 of 25 rabbits, 1 of 27 fox squirrels, 1 of 26 gray squirrels, 4 of 18 mice and rats, 8 of 21 raccoons, 7 of 17 opossums, and a bobcat. isolations were not made from 6 deer examined. serotypes isolated were leptospira interrogans ... | 1975 | 1176352 |
| ectoparasites of a population of urban gray squirrels in northern florida. | ectoparasites infesting a population of urban gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis gmelin) in northern florida were collected monthly during 1974. eleven species were identified: one flea (orchopeas howardi (baker], three suckling lice (enderleinellus longiceps kellogg & ferris, hoplopleura sciuricola ferris, and neohaematopinus sciuri jancke), one tick (dermacentor variabilis say), two mesostigmatid (gamasid) mites (androlaelaps casalis (berlese) and a. fahrenholzi (berlese], and four chiggers ... | 1991 | 1875375 |
| rodent ectoparasites from two locations in northwestern florida. | from feb.-apr. 1999, 19 species of ectoparasitic arthropods (2 sucking lice, 4 fleas, 4 ticks, 2 mesostigmatid mites, 5 chiggers, 2 fur mites) were recovered from 106 rodents belonging to 5 species (cotton mouse, peromyscus gossypinus, n = 64; cotton rat, sigmodon hispidus, n = 23; eastern woodrat, neotoma floridana, n = 9; golden mouse, ochrotomys nuttalli, n = 9; eastern gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis, n = 1) at tall timbers research station, leon county, florida. during the same period, ... | 2000 | 11217221 |
| an epizootic of fibromatosis in gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis) in florida. | beginning in the fall of 1998 and extending into the spring and early summer of 1999 there was a large epizootic of squirrel fibromatosis in squirrels in seven counties in peninsular florida. hundreds of gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis) with multiple cutaneous tumors were submitted or reported to biologists, veterinary hospitals, and private wildlife rehabilitators. most squirrels died or were euthanized soon after submission. twenty squirrels were submitted for necropsy. the majority of th ... | 2002 | 12038130 |
| coccidia of urban gray squirrels in northern florida. | | 1977 | 592033 |
| blood and urinary values in the gray squirrel. | uric acid, blood urea nitrogen, glucose, total serum protein, cholesterol, triglyceride, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and chloride concentrations in the blood plus ph, bilirubin, ketone, blood, protein and glucose levels in the urine were determined for gray squirrels captured in jacksonville, florida. significant differences were not noted for any of these values when compared by the age or sex of the animals, by breeding or lactation status, by month of capture, or by habitat type. depresse ... | 1976 | 16498875 |