| [the natural foci of the tsutsugamushi disease in the suburbs of hang zhou city]. | in 1986, investigating tsutsugamushi disease in the suburbs of hangzhou, we isolated rickettsia tsutsugamushi from leptotrombidium gaohuense and its reservoir hosts, rattus confucianus and rattus fulvescens, which were collected in yang shan wu village, linan county. it proved there was a natural focus of tsutsugamushi disease in the suburbs of hang zhou. which is located at 30 degrees 35'. north latitude, and main forest of the east tianmu mountain, covered by wide and needle leaves, with more ... | 1990 | 2115400 |
| [preliminary investigation on reservoir hosts of borrelia burgdorferi in china]. | from 1987 to 1997, the reservoir hosts of borrelia burdorferi(b.b.) were investigated in 16 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of china. seroepidemiological findings indicated that cattle, sheep, dogs and rats from forest areas had a high antibody titer for b.b. (b31) with positive rates of 18.18%-32.61%, 17.12%-61.21%, 38.50-60.00% and 41.18%-86.05% respectively. using bsk medium, 20 strains of b.b. were isolated from apodemus agrarius, clethrionomys rufocanus, eutamias sibiricus, ... | 1999 | 12712735 |
| [study on spotted fever group rickettsiae in guangdong province]. | to explore the existence of spotted fever group rickettsiae (sfgr) in guangdong province. | 2003 | 14521792 |
| karyotypes of three rat species (mammalia: rodentia: muridae) from hainan island, china, and the valid specific status of niviventer lotipes. | the karyotypes of three rat species from hainan island, china, were examined. niviventer fulvescens (gray, 1847) had 2n=46 and fn=64, similar to the karyotypes reported for n. fulvescens from southeast asia, while niviventer lotipes () had 2n=52 and fn=66, which is distinct from the known karyotypes of other niviventer species. niviventer lotipes was recently considered conspecific with n. tenaster (), but the two were found to have extremely different karyotypes (2n=52 and fn=66 in n. lotipes; ... | 2008 | 18624578 |
| chromosomal evolution in rattini (muridae, rodentia). | the rattini (muridae, murinae) includes the biologically important model species rattus norvegicus (rno) and represents a group of rodents that are of clinical, agricultural and epidemiological importance. we present a comparative molecular cytogenetic investigation of ten rattini species representative of the genera maxomys, leopoldamys, niviventer, berylmys, bandicota and rattus using chromosome banding, cross-species painting (zoo-fluorescent in situ hybridization or fish) and bac-fish mappin ... | 2011 | 21850459 |
| multispacer typing (mst) of spotted fever group rickettsiae isolated from humans and rats in chengmai county, hainan province, china. | spotted fever caused by spotted fever group rickettsiae (sfgr) is found throughout china. during 2007-2008, 28 human sfgr isolates and 34 rat sfgr isolates including 15 isolates from rattus fulvescens, 5 isolates from r. edwardsi, 7 isolates from callosciurus erythraeus roberti and 7 isolates from dremomys rufigenis) were obtained from l929 cell culture. previous research indicated that the 62 strains of sfgr mentioned above shared not only the same serophenotype but also 100% of identity sequen ... | 2014 | 25324688 |
| clonal diversity of ctx-m-producing, multidrug-resistant escherichia coli from rodents. | this territory-wide study investigated the occurrence of faecal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (esbl)-producing escherichia coli among wild rodents from the 18 districts in hong kong. individual rectal swabs were obtained from the trapped animals and cultured in plain and selective media. a total of 965 wild rodents [148 chestnut spiny rats (niviventer fulvescens), 326 indo-chinese forest rats (rattus andamanensis), 452 brown rats (rattus norvegicus) and 39 black rats (rattus rattus)] ... | 2015 | 25627207 |
| molecular demonstration of trypanosoma evansi and trypanosoma lewisi dna in wild rodents from cambodia, lao pdr and thailand. | in this study, we investigated the molecular evidence of trypanosoma evansi in wild rodents from cambodia, lao pdr and thailand. between november 2007 and june 2009, 1664 rodents were trapped at eight sites representative of various ecological habitats. of those animals, 94 were tested by direct microscopic blood examination, 633 using the card agglutination test for trypanosomes (catt/t. evansi) and 145 by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) with two sets of primers: tryp1 (amplifying its1 of ribos ... | 2013 | 22321449 |
| molecular prevalence of trypanosoma spp. in wild rodents of southeast asia: influence of human settlement habitat. | this study investigated the molecular prevalence of trypanosoma lewisi and t. evansi in wild rodents from cambodia, lao pdr and thailand. between 2008 and 2012, rodents (and shrews) were trapped in nine locations and 616 of these were tested using three sets of primers: tryp1 (amplifying its1 of ribosomal dna of all trypanosomes), tbr (amplifying satellite genomic dna of trypanozoon parasites) and lew1 (amplifying its1 of ribosomal dna of t. lewisi). based on the size of the pcr products using t ... | 2014 | 24025128 |
| [structural characteristics of certain rodents spines (rodentia: myomorpha, hystricomorpha)]. | the architectonics of spines and hair was studied in neacomys spinosus, arvicanthis somalicus, leopoldamys sabanus, l. edwardsi, maxomys moi, m. surifer, niviventer fulvescens, n. confucianus, n. cremoriventer, acomys cahirinus, a. somalica, hystrix indica, h. cristata, atherurus macrourus, erethizon dorsatum, proechimys steerei, and lonchotrix emiliae. the presence of a dorsal longitudinal furrow covered by a modified cuticle is a common structural feature of spines in all studied species excep ... | 2016 | 11525125 |
| the use of camera traps to identify the set of scavengers preying on the carcass of a golden snub-nosed monkey (rhinopithecus roxellana). | there exists very limited information on the set of scavengers that feed on the carcasses of wild primates. here, we describe, based on information collected using a remote camera trap, carnivores consuming/scavenging the carcass of a wild golden snub-nosed monkey (rhinopithecus roxellana) in the laohegou nature reserve, sichuan, china. during a 3 month behavioral and ecology study of a band of golden snub-nosed monkeys (march through may 2013), we encountered the carcass of an adult male (male ... | 2014 | 24498311 |
| detection of kobe-type and otsu-type babesia microti in wild rodents in china's yunnan province. | babesiosis is an emerging tick-transmitted zoonosis prevalent in large parts of the world. this study was designed to determine the rates of babesia microti infection among small rodents in yunnan province, where human cases of babesiosis have been reported. currently, distribution of babesia in its endemic regions is largely unknown. in this study, we cataloged 1672 small wild rodents, comprising 4 orders, from nine areas in western yunnan province between 2009 and 2011. babesia microti dna was ... | 2017 | 28803569 |
| sequencing and analysis of complete mitochondrial genome of niviventer fulvescens (muridae). | the complete mitochondrial genome was sequenced and annotated newly from an individual of niviventer fulvescens (muridae) from sichuan province. the total length of the n. fulvescens mitogenome is 16 296 bp and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal rna genes, 22 transfer rna genes and a control region, with a base composition of 34.3%a, 29.1%t, 24.2%c and 12.4%g. the nucleotide sequence data of 12 heavy-strand protein-coding genes of n. fulvescens and other 18 rodents were used for mitoc ... | 2016 | 26329164 |
| cryptosporidium spp. in wild rats (rattus spp.) from the hainan province, china: molecular detection, species/genotype identification and implications for public health. | wild rats (rattus spp.) carry many zoonotic pathogens including cryptosporidium. due to the close proximity of rats to humans in urban environments, the potential for disease transmission is high. cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite which when ingested causes serious human illness. despite its importance, genetic characterization of cryptosporidium in wild rats in the hainan province of china has not been performed. in this study, we analyzed the occurrence and genetics of cryptosporidium in ... | 2019 | 31338292 |
| [investigation and genetic identification on babesia infection in rodents in some areas of fujian province]. | to explore the status of babesia infection in rodents and the genetic characteristics of babesia spp. in fujian province. | 2017 | 30134086 |