Volume 4, Number 1—March 1998
Dispatch
Bayou Virus-Associated Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Eastern Texas: Identification of the Rice Rat, Oryzomys palustris, as Reservoir Host
Table
Rodents collected in association with two cases of Bayou virus-hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Jefferson and Orange Counties, Texas, March and October 1996
| Species | No. specimens collected
(no. seropositive) |
No. PCR b tested (no. pos.) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area 1a | Area 2 | Area 3 | Area 4 | Total | ||
| Baiomys taylori | 0 | 0 | 1(0) | 3 (0) | 4 (0) | 0 |
| Mus musculus | 30 (0) | 21 (0) | 12 (1) | 26 (0) | 88 (1) | 1 (0) |
| Ochrotomys nuttali | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 |
| Oryzomys palustris | 45 (7) | 20 (5) | 3 (0) | 8 (3) | 76 (15) | 15 (14) |
| Peromyscus leucopus | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 |
| Rattus norvegicus | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 | 1 (0) | 3 (0) | 0 |
| Rattus rattus | 21 (0) | 8 (0) | 0 | 1 (0) | 30 (0) | 0 |
| Reithrodontomys fulvescens | 0 | 7 (0) | 0 | 7 (0) | 14 (0) | 0 |
| Reithrodontomys humulis | 1(0) | 0 | 0 | 2 (0) | 3 (0) | 0 |
| Sigmodon hispidus | 95 (0) | 5 (0) | 11 (0) | 4 (1) | 114 (1) | 1 (1) |
aRefer to Figure 2 for map areas.
bPCR=polymerase chain reaction.
