| catarina virus, an arenaviral species principally associated with neotoma micropus (southern plains woodrat) in texas. | the purpose of this study was to define the taxonomic relationship of an arenavirus principally associated with the southern plains woodrat (neotoma micropus) in southern texas to other new world arenaviruses. the results of independent analyses of glycoprotein precursor amino acid sequences and nucleocapsid protein amino acid sequences indicated that the arenavirus in southern texas is novel (proposed species name catarina virus) and phylogenetically most closely related to whitewater arroyo vi ... | 2007 | 17978080 |
| duration of catarina virus infection in the southern plains woodrat (neotoma micropus). | abstract four adult male, 6 sub-adult, and 7 newborn southern plains woodrats (neotoma micropus) each were inoculated subcutaneously with 3.1 log(10) median cell culture infectious doses (ccid(50)) of catarina virus strain av a0400135 (virus family arenaviridae). the inoculated animals and the mothers of the newborn animals all became infected and remained asymptomatic. the infections in the adult male woodrats and in the mother woodrats were transient, the infections in 2 (33.3%) of the sub-a ... | 2012 | 22214271 |
| ecology of catarina virus (family arenaviridae) in southern texas, 2001-2004. | a total of 3941 rodents were captured during a 46-month prospective (mark-recapture) study on the ecology of catarina virus in southern texas. antibody reactive against catarina virus was found in 73 (11.9%) of 611 southern plains woodrats (neotoma micropus) and none of 3330 other rodents; strains of catarina virus were isolated from 6 antibody-negative and 9 antibody-positive southern plains woodrats; and the infections in at least 3 southern plains woodrats were chronic. these results affirm t ... | 2012 | 23210637 |
| diversity among tacaribe serocomplex viruses (family arenaviridae) associated with the southern plains woodrat (neotoma micropus). | the southern plains woodrat (neotoma micropus) is the principal host of catarina virus in southern texas and a natural host of other north american tacaribe serocomplex viruses. the objectives of this study were to increase our knowledge of the genetic diversity among tacaribe serocomplex viruses associated with n. micropus and to define better the natural host relationships of these viruses. pairwise comparisons of complete glycoprotein precursor gene sequences and complete nucleocapsid protein ... | 2013 | 24161346 |