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SUBMITTER: Milazzo ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3311192 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Milazzo Mary L ML Cajimat Maria N B MN Duno Gloria G Duno Freddy F Utrera Antonio A Fulhorst Charles F CF
Emerging infectious diseases 20111201 12
Samples from rodents captured on a farm in Venezuela in February 1997 were tested for arenavirus, antibody against Guanarito virus (GTOV), and antibody against Pirital virus (PIRV). Thirty-one (48.4%) of 64 short-tailed cane mice (Zygodontomys brevicauda) were infected with GTOV, 1 Alston's cotton rat (Sigmodon alstoni) was infected with GTOV, and 36 (64.3%) of 56 other Alston's cotton rats were infected with PIRV. The results of analyses of field and laboratory data suggested that horizontal tr ...[more]