| lassa serology in natural populations of rodents and horizontal transmission. | lassa virus causes hemorrhagic fever in west africa. previously, we demonstrated by pcr screening that only the multimammate mouse, mastomys natalensis, hosts lassa virus in guinea. in the present study, we used the same specimen collection from 17 villages in coastal, upper, and forest guinea to investigate the lassa virus serology in the rodent population. the aim was to determine the dynamics of antibody development in m. natalensis and to detect potential spillover infections in other rodent ... | 2014 | 25229705 |
| pterygodermatites (mesopectines) quentini (nematoda, rictulariidae), a parasite of praomys rostratus (rodentia, muridae) in mali: scanning electron and light microscopy. | pterygodermatites (mesopectines) quentini n. sp. (nematoda, rictulariidae) is described from the murine host praomys rostratus in the south of the republic of mali. it differs from other species of the subgenus by the morphology of the head, which bears four simple cephalic papillae and a nearly axial oral opening, the number of caudal papillae, the number of precloacal cuticular formations, unequal spicules and the ratio of spicule lengths/body length. the use of scanning electron microscopy in ... | 2013 | 24025692 |
| comparative phylogeography of two sibling species of forest-dwelling rodent (praomys rostratus and p. tullbergi) in west africa: different reactions to past forest fragmentation. | two sibling species of the rodent genus praomys occur in west african forests: p. tullbergi and p. rostratus. by sampling across their geographical ranges (459 individuals from 77 localities), we test the hypothesis that climatic oscillations during the quaternary made an impact on the observed pattern of cytochrome b sequence variation. we show that, although these two species have parapatric geographical distributions, their phylogeographical histories are dissimilar, which could be related to ... | 2008 | 19120992 |
| movement patterns of small rodents in lassa fever-endemic villages in guinea. | the natal multimammate mouse (mastomys natalensis) is the reservoir host of lassa arenavirus, the etiological agent of lassa fever in humans. because there exists no vaccine for human use, rodent control and adjusting human behavior are currently considered to be the only options for lassa fever control. in order to develop efficient rodent control programs, more information about the host's ecology is needed. in this study, we investigated the spatial behavior of m. natalensis and other small r ... | 2018 | 29572697 |