Volume 13, Number 9—September 2007
Dispatch
Hantavirus in Northern Short-tailed Shrew, United States
Satoru Arai*, Jin-Won Song†, Laarni Sumibcay*, Shannon N. Bennett*, Vivek R. Nerurkar*, Cheryl Parmenter‡, Joseph A. Cook‡, Terry L. Yates‡, and Richard Yanagihara*
Table 1
Reverse transcription–PCR detection of hantavirus sequences in tissues of Blarina brevicauda, United States
| State | County | Trapping date | No. tested | No. positive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | Porter | Jul 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| Westchester | Jul 1994 | 1 | 0 | |
| Iowa | Allamakee | Aug 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| Maryland | Charles | Sep 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| Michigan | Benzie | Jul 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| Crawford | Jul 1999 | 2 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | Morrison | Aug 1998 | 12 | 3 |
| Ohio | Summit | Jul 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| Virginia | Appomatox | Jul 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| Page | Mar 1995 | 1 | 0 |
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