Short Report: Prevalence of Hantavirus Infection in Rodents Associated with Two Fatal Human Infections in California
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 52 (2) , 180-182
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1995.52.180
Abstract
Rodents living near two fatal human cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in California were surveyed for evidence of hantavirus infection. Seventeen (15%) (14 Peromyscus maniculatus and one each of P. truei, Eutamias minimus, and Microtus californicus) of 114 rodents tested had evidence (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay or polymerase chain reaction) of hantavirus infection. This suggests that Peromyscus mice, and P. maniculatus in particular, may be the reservoir for the virus causing this newly recognized disease in California, as previously reported for New Mexico and Arizona.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: