Volume 5, Number 1—February 1999
Research
Long-Term Hantavirus Persistence in Rodent Populations in Central Arizona
Ken D. Abbott*
, Thomas G. Ksiazek†, and James N. Mills†
, Thomas G. Ksiazek†, and James N. Mills†Table 1
Sin Nombre virus–antibody-positive mice and hantavirus prevalence at three mark-recapture webs, December 1995–November 1997a
| Trapping webs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | S-1 | S-2 | C-1b | Totals |
| Peromyscus boylii | 76/286/109 | 74/516/178 | 3/56/22 | 153/858/309 |
| (Brush mouse) | (26.6%) | (14.3%) | (5.4%) | (17.8%) |
| Peromyscus truei | 3/165/67 | 5/133/55 | 0/15/8 | 8/313/130 |
| (Pinyon mouse) | (2.0%) | (3.8%) | (0.0%) | (2.6%) |
| Tamias dorsalis | 0/73/40 | 0/83/29 | 0/19/9 | 0/175/78 |
| (Cliff chipmunk) | (0.0%) | |||
| Dipodomys ordii | 0/3/2 | 0/33/13 | 0/7/3 | 0/43/18 |
| (Ord's kangaroo rat) | (0.0%) | |||
| Onychomys leucogaster | 0 | 0/10/3 | 0 | 0/10/3 |
| (Northern grasshopper mouse) | (0.0%) | |||
| Neotoma stephensi | 0/3/1 | 0/2/2 | 0/3/2 | 0/8/5 |
| (Stephen's woodrat) | (0.0%) | |||
| Neotoma albigula | 0/1/4 | 0/4/1 | 0/2/1 | 0/7/6 |
| (White-throated wood rat) | (0.0%) | |||
| Reithrodontomys megalotis | 0 | 0/4/4 | 0 | 0/4/4 |
| (Western harvest mouse) | (0.0%) | |||
| All species | 79/531/223 | 79/785/285 | 3/102/45 | 161/1,418/553 |
aPositive samples/number of samples tested/number individuals tested. Values in parentheses are hantavirus antibody prevalences for 35 months based on the number of samples tested.
bC-1 was initially a control web; serologic sampling began in October 1996.
