Publications
| survey for antibody to hantaviruses in tamaulipas, mexico. | wild rodents (n=248) were trapped in two ecologically distinct sites at el cielo biosphere reserve in the state of tamaulipas, mexico, during the summer of 2003. samples from 199 individuals were tested for hantavirus antibodies by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa). hantavirus antibodies to recombinant sin nombre virus nucleocapsid protein were found in seven rodents (3.5%) of a single species, peromyscus levipes. antibody-positive rodents were found only in the cloud forest ... | 2009 | 19204351 |
| geographic distribution of hantaviruses associated with neotomine and sigmodontine rodents, mexico. | to increase our knowledge of the geographic distribution of hantaviruses associated with neotomine or sigmodontine rodents in mexico, we tested 876 cricetid rodents captured in 18 mexican states (representing at least 44 species in the subfamily neotominae and 10 species in the subfamily sigmodontinae) for anti-hantavirus igg. we found antibodies against hantavirus in 35 (4.0%) rodents. nucleotide sequence data from 5 antibody-positive rodents indicated that sin nombre virus (the major cause of ... | 2012 | 22469569 |