Volume 5, Number 6—December 1999
Research
Hantavirus Reservoir Hosts Associated with Peridomestic Habitats in Argentina
, 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*Table 2
Relative proportiona of rodent species in each site category, by site
| Site type/total no. captured |
pc |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
