| rabies in skunks from mexico. | an enzootic focus of rabies in skunks in mexico is described. fifty three wild animals including two badgers (taxidea taxus), 32 bats (various species), one bobcat (lynx rufus), two coatis (nasua narica) three foxes (urocyon cineroargenteus), one raccoon (procyon lotor) and 12 skunks (see below) were tested for rabies by direct immunofluorescence assay from 1991 to 1997 in the central part of san luis potosi state, mexico. rabies occurrence was 21% of all tested mammals, with 19% in skunks and o ... | 1999 | 10479094 |
| helminths of sympatric striped, hog-nosed, and spotted skunks in west-central texas. | twenty-eight hog-nosed skunks (conepatus leuconotus), 23 striped skunks (mephitis mephitis), and nine spotted skunks (spilogale gracilis) from an area of sympatry in west-central texas were examined for helminth parasites. shared helminth species among all three host species were one nematode (physaloptera maxillaris), two acanthocephalans (pachysentis canicola, macracanthorhynchus ingens), and one cestode (mathevotaenia mephitis). two nematodes (gongylonema sp. and filaria taxidaea) occurred in ... | 2006 | 17092881 |
| chromosome painting shows that skunks (mephitidae, carnivora) have highly rearranged karyotypes. | the karyotypic relationships of skunks (mephitidae) with other major clades of carnivores are not yet established. here, multi-directional chromosome painting was used to reveal the karyological relationships among skunks and between mephitidae (skunks) and procyonidae (raccoons). representative species from three genera of mephitidae (mephitis mephitis, 2n = 50; mephitis macroura, 2n = 50; conepatus leuconotus, 2n = 46; spilogale gracilis, 2n = 60) and one species of procyonidae (procyon lotor, ... | 2008 | 19051045 |
| identification of skunk species submitted for rabies testing in the desert southwest. | skunks usually are identified by their common name (skunk) when submitted for rabies testing. in the desert southwest (arizona, new mexico, texas, usa; and northern mexico), there are five species of skunks; four of which can occur in sympatry. to better understand the ecology of skunk rabies in these areas, it is imperative that species be properly identified. we used the displacement loop (d-loop) of the mitochondrial genome to identify to species 24 skunk brain samples submitted for rabies te ... | 2004 | 15362845 |
| prevalence and intensity of the sinus roundworm ( skrjabingylus chitwoodorum) in rabies-negative skunks of texas, usa. | : estimates of the distribution and prevalence of the sinus roundworm ( skrjabingylus chitwoodorum) have been based largely on the inspection of skunk (mephitidae) skulls showing damage from infections. we examined 595 striped skunks ( mephitis mephitis) and nine hog-nosed skunks ( conepatus leuconotus) that had tested negative for rabies by the texas department of state health services (us) between november 2010 and april 2015 to determine species of skrjabingylus, prevalence and intensity of ... | 2018 | 29077543 |