Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
Letter
Sin Nombre Virus Infection in Deer Mice, Channel Islands, California
John L. Orrock
and Brian F. Allan
and Brian F. AllanTable
Sin Nombre virus in Peromyscus maniculatus mice on 4 Channel Islands, California, May 3–15, 2007*
| Island* | No. trap nights | Prevalence, % |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1994 | ||
| East Anacapa† | 180 | 0 | 0 |
| San Miguel‡ | 104 | 26.3 | 17.9 |
| Santa Barbara§ | 216 | 0 | 0 |
| Santa Rosa¶ | 216 | 47.6 | 58 |
*The number of captured mice that were sampled for Sin Nombre virus (SNV) was 23 on East Anacapa, 19 on San Miguel Island, 15 on Santa Barbara Island, and 21 on Santa Rosa Island. The 1994 data in the table are from a study by Jay et al. (2) and are included for comparison purposes.
†East Anacapa: 34º00'56"N/119º21'49"W.
‡San Miguel: 34º02'18"N/120º20'54"W.
§Santa Barbara: 33º28'30"N/119º02'12"W.
¶Santa Rosa: 34º00'03"N/120º03'30”W.
