| systematics and evolution of the genus paraceroglyphus and related taxa (acari: acaridae) associated with fleas (insecta: siphonaptera). | collections of fleas from terrestrial sciuridae from new mexico and montana yielded 2 species of acarid mites: acarus monopsyllus from ceratophyllus ciliatus and paraceroglyphus cynomydis n. sp. from 4 species of oropsylla. the genera acarus, paraceroglyphus, and trichopsyllopus form a clade distinct from other genera of flea-associated mites, with paraceroglyphus the sister group of the other 2 genera. paraceroglyphus cynomydis is the sister group of a clade comprising p. xenopsylla and possibl ... | 1987 | 3437355 |
| plague studies in california: a review of long-term disease activity, flea-host relationships and plague ecology in the coniferous forests of the southern cascades and northern sierra nevada mountains. | we review 28 years of long-term surveillance (1970-1997) for plague activity among wild rodents from ten locations within three coniferous forest habitat types in the northern sierra nevada and the southern cascade mountains of northeastern california. we identify rodent hosts and their fleas and document long-term plague activity in each habitat type. the highest seroprevalence for yersinia pestis occurred in the chipmunks, tamias senex and t. quadrimaculatus, and the pine squirrel, tamiasciuru ... | 2010 | 20618641 |
| survey for zoonotic rickettsial pathogens in northern flying squirrels, glaucomys sabrinus, in california. | epidemic typhus, caused by rickettsia prowazekii, is maintained in a southern flying squirrel (glaucomys volans) sylvatic cycle in the southeastern united states. the northern flying squirrel (glaucomys sabrinus) has not been previously associated with r. prowazekii transmission. a second rickettsial pathogen, anaplasma phagocytophilum, infects dusky-footed woodrats (neotoma fuscipes) and tree squirrels in northern california. because northern flying squirrels or their ectoparasites have not bee ... | 2007 | 17984264 |