| diversity and habitat association of small mammals in aridtsy forest, awi zone, ethiopia. | here, we conducted a survey to examine the diversity, distribution and habitat association of small mammals from august 2011 to february 2012 incorporating both wet and dry seasons in aridtsy forest, awi zone, ethiopia. using sherman live traps and snap traps in four randomly selected trapping grids, namely, natural forest, bushland, grassland and farmland, a total of 468 individuals comprising eight species of small mammals (live traps) and 89 rodents of six species (snap traps) were trapped in ... | 2015 | 25855227 |
| molecular phylogeny of myomys/stenocephalemys complex and its relationships with related african genera. | partial 16s rrna mitochondrial gene sequences were used to infer the phylogenetic relationships among stenocephalemys albocaudata, s. griseicauda and myomys albipes, three closely related ethiopian endemic murines and a selection of related species (myomys daltoni, praomys delectorum, mastomys natalensis, hylomyscus kaimosae, and colomys goslingi) from other african regions. the obtained phylogeny confirms the close relationship between m. albipes and the two stenocephalemys species, but it also ... | 2001 | 11336808 |
| high diversity of rna viruses in rodents, ethiopia. | we investigated synanthropic small mammals in the ethiopian highlands as potential reservoirs for human pathogens and found that 2 rodent species, the ethiopian white-footed mouse and awash multimammate mouse, are carriers of novel mobala virus strains. the white-footed mouse also carries a novel hantavirus, the second murinae-associated hantavirus found in africa. | 2012 | 23171649 |
| complete genome characterisation and phylogenetic position of tigray hantavirus from the ethiopian white-footed mouse, stenocephalemys albipes. | hantaviruses, well-known human pathogens, have only recently been identified on the african continent. tigray virus (tigv) was found in ethiopia in 2012 in a murinae species, stenocephalemys albipes, but the genetic data obtained at that time were too limited to correctly assess its phylogenetic position within the hantavirus tree. we used high throughput sequencing to determine the complete genome of tigv, which showed a typical hantavirus organisation. the large (l), medium (m), and small (s) ... | 2016 | 27619058 |
| tigray orthohantavirus infects two related rodent species adapted to different elevations in ethiopia. | orthohantaviruses are rna viruses that some members are known to cause severe zoonotic diseases in humans. orthohantaviruses are hosted by rodents, soricomorphs (shrews and moles), and bats. only two orthohantaviruses associated with murid rodents are known in africa, sangassou orthohantavirus (sangv) in two species of african wood mice (hylomyscus), and tigray orthohantavirus (tigv) in the ethiopian white-footed rat (stenocephalemys albipes). in this article, we report evidence that, like sangv ... | 2019 | 31355714 |
| prevalence of orthohantavirus-reactive antibodies in humans and peri-domestic rodents in northern ethiopia. | in 2012, tigray orthohantavirus was discovered in ethiopia, but its seasonal infection in small mammals, and whether it poses a risk to humans was unknown. the occurrence of small mammals, rodents and shrews, in human inhabitations in northern ethiopia is affected by season and presence of stone bunds. we sampled small mammals in two seasons from low- and high-density stone bund fields adjacent to houses and community-protected semi-natural habitats in atsbi and hagere selam, where tigray orthoh ... | 2021 | 34199600 |