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Volume 5, Number 6—December 1999
Research

Hantavirus Reservoir Hosts Associated with Peridomestic Habitats in Argentina

Gladys Calderón*Comments to Author , Noemí Pini*, Jorge Bolpe†, Silvana Levis*, James Mills‡, Elsa Segura*, Nadia Guthmann§, Gustavo Cantoni¶, José Becker*, Ana Fonollat#, Carlos Ripoll**, Marcelo Bortman‡‡, Rosendo Benedetti‡‡, Marta Sabattini§§, and Delia Enria*

Author affiliations: *Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas "Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui," ANLIS, "Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán," Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina; †Departamento de Zoonosis Rurales de Azul, Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §Universidad Nacional del Comahue, S.C. de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina; ¶Consejo Provincial de Salud Pública, Rio Negro, Argentina; #Fundación Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; **Departamento de Chagas y Patologías Regionales, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina; ††Subsecretaría de Salud, Neuquén, Argentina; ‡‡Zona Sanitaria Noroeste, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina; and the Hantavirus Study Group1

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Table 2

Relative proportiona of rodent species in each site category, by site

Site type/total no. captured
 pc
Zone Speciesb DU/2 PU/5 DR/18 PR/227 OU/10 OR/58 PRvsOR
Northern Av 0 20.0 0 23.8 10.0 31.0 NS
Cc 50.0 20.0 0 17.2 20.0 17.2 NS
Och 0 20.0 0 14.5 0 1.7 *
Ol 0 0 0 14.1 0 3.4 *
As 0 0 5.6 9.7 0 1.7 NS
Mm 50.0 0 0 1.3 0 1.7 NS
Rr 0 0 88.9 4.0 20.0 1.7 NS
Others 0 40.0 5.6 15.4 50.0 41.4 *
DU/14
 PU/162
 DR/3
 PR/805
 OU/7
 OR/389
 PUvsPR
 PRvsOR
 PUvsOR
Central Aa 0 54.9 0 30.3 0 53.2 * * NS
Of 0 6.2 33.3 45.3 0 16.2 * * *
Cm 0 2.5 0 5.1 0 13.6 NS * *
Cl 0 0.6 33.3 4.3 0 1.3 * * NS
Hb 0 0 0 0 0 6.4 ND * *
Mm 100 33.9 33.3 11.5 100 0.5 * * *
Rr 0 0.6 0 1.1 0 0.3 NS NS NS
Others 0 1.2 0 2.2 0 8.5 NS * *
DU/10
 PU/21
 DR/0
 PR/161
 OU/55
 OR/355
 PRvsOU
 PRvsOR
 OUvsOR
Southern Ol 80.0 14.3 0 65.8 47.3 57.5 * NS NS
Al 0 38.1 0 9.3 45.4 36.6 * * NS
Ao 0 4.8 0 10.6 1.8 3.1 NS * NS
Mm 20.0 38.1 0 9.3 0 2.0 * * NS
Others 0 4.8 0 5.0 5.4 0.8 NS * *

aCalculated as the percentage of total captures in a given site category represented by each species.
bAv, Akodon varius; Cc, Calomys callosus; Och, Oligoryzomys chacoensis; Ol, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus; As, Akodon spegazzinii; Mm, Mus musculus; Rr, Rattus rattus: Aa, Akodon azarae; Of, Oligoryzomys flavescens; Cm, Calomys musculinus;
Cl, Calomys laucha; Hb, Holochilus brasiliensis; Al, Abrothrix longipilis; Ao, Abrothrix olivaceus.
cChi-square test for comparison of two proportions in two independent samples. Epi Info version 6.04.
*p <0.05; NS, p >0.05; ND, not done. Comparisons were made and are shown only for cases where sample size was sufficient for statistical comparisons.

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1Eduardo Herrera and Edmundo Larrieu, Consejo Provincial de Salud Pública, Rio Negro, Argentina; María Cacace, Hospital San Vicente de Paul, Orán, Salta, Argentina; Roberto Gonzalo, Ricardo Fernandez, Gustavo Martinez, and Alberto Suzzi, Zona Sanitaria Noroeste, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.

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