Volume 16, Number 2—February 2010
Dispatch
Sin Nombre Virus Infection in Field Workers, Colorado, USA
Table
Mammal species, abundance, seropositivity, and Sin Nombre virus RNA quantification during May–June and August–September 2005, Boulder, Broomfield, and Jefferson counties, Colorado, USA*
Species (common name) | No. animals |
No. seropositive |
Antibody prevalence, % |
SNV titers | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May–Jun | Aug–Sep | May–Jun | Aug–Sep | May–Jun | Aug–Sep | ||||
Chaetodipus hispidus (hispid pocket mouse) | 23 | 58 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.44 | |||
Cynomys ludovicianus (black-tailed prairie dog) | 171 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Microtus ochrogaster (prairie vole) | 26 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | |||
Microtus pennsylvanicus (meadow vole) | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |||
Mus musculus (house mouse) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Neotoma mexicana (Mexican woodrat) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Peromyscus maniculatus (deer mouse) | 711 | 780 | 105 | 82 | 14.77 | 10.5 | Animal 1050, 520.8 copies/mL; Animal 2404, 87.45 copies/mL | ||
Reithrodontomys megalotis (western harvest mouse) | 8 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 12.5 | 19.0 | |||
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus (thirteen-lined ground squirrel) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sylvilagus audubonii (Audubon's cottontail) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*SNV, Sin Nombre virus.