Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
Research
Transmission of Guanarito and Pirital Viruses among Wild Rodents, Venezuela
Mary L. Milazzo, Maria N.B. Cajimat, Gloria Duno, Freddy Duno, Antonio Utrera, and Charles F. Fulhorst
Table 4
Isolation of arenaviruses from 64 short-tailed cane mice (Zygodontomys brevicauda) and 57 Alston’s cotton rats (Sigmodon alstoni) captured on Hato Maporal, municipality of Guanarito, Portuguesa State, Venezuela, February 1997
| No. |
Sample* |
Antibody status |
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| Throat swab |
Lung |
Spleen |
Kidney |
Urine |
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| Cane mice† | ||||||
| 3 | – | + | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | – | – | + | – | – | – |
| 6 | – | + | + | + | + | – |
| – | – | + | + | + | – | |
| 1 | + | – | + | + | + | – |
| 2 | + | + | + | + | + | – |
| 2 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| 2 | + | – | + | + | + | + |
| 6 | – | – | + | + | + | + |
| 1 | – | – | + | + | – | + |
| 2 | – | – | – | – | – | + |
| 33 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cotton rats‡ | ||||||
| 2 | – | – | + | – | – | – |
| 4 | – | + | + | + | – | – |
| 21 | – | + | + | + | + | – |
| 9 | + | + | + | + | + | – |
| 1 | – | – | + | – | – | + |
| 20 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
*–, negative; +, positive.
†The arenaviruses isolated from the cane mice were strains of Guanarito virus.
‡The arenavirus isolated from cotton rat FHV-4149 was a strain of Guanarito virus. The arenaviruses isolated from the 36 other culture-positive cotton rats were strains of Pirital virus.
