Volume 18, Number 12—December 2012
Dispatch
High Diversity of RNA Viruses in Rodents, Ethiopia
Yonas Meheretu1, Dagmar Čížková1, Jana Těšíková, Kiros Welegerima, Zewdneh Tomas, Dawit Kidane, Kokob Girmay, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Josef Bryja, Stephan Günther, Anna Bryjová, Herwig Leirs, and Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq
Table
Small mammal species screened for arenaviruses and hantaviruses, Ethiopian Highlands, August–December 2010*
| Species | No. animals by locality and elevation |
Total no. animals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aroresha, 1,600 m | Golgolnaele, 2,700 m | Mahbere Silassie, 2,600 m | ||
| Ethiopian white-footed mouse (Stenocephalemys albipes) | 0 | 33 | 23 | 56 |
| Awash multimammate mouse (Mastomys awashensis) | 16 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| Mus (Nannomys) sp. mice | 11 | 20 | 2 | 33 |
| Black rat (Rattus rattus) | 37 | 2 | 5 | 44 |
| African giant shrew (Crocidura olivieri) | 6 | 2 | 17 | 25 |
| Dembea grass rat (Arvicanthis dembeensis) | 8 | 13 | 4 | 25 |
| Total | 78 | 71 | 52 | 201 |
*Species identification was confirmed by sequencing the partial mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (11). Representative sequences are available in GenBank (accession nos. JQ956464-JQ956479). Voucher specimens from representative rodents have been deposited at the Evolutionary Ecology group, University of Antwerp, and are available from the authors on request.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
