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Volume 26, Number 3—March 2020
Research

Long-Term Rodent Surveillance after Outbreak of Hantavirus Infection, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, 2012

Mary E. DanforthComments to Author , Sharon Messenger, Danielle Buttke, Matthew Weinburke, George Carroll, Gregory Hacker, Michael Niemela, Elizabeth S. Andrews, Bryan T. Jackson, Vicki Kramer, and Mark Novak
Author affiliations: California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, USA (M.E. Danforth, G. Hacker, M. Niemela, E.S. Andrews, B.T. Jackson, V. Kramer, M. Novak); California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (S. Messenger); National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (D. Buttke); National Park Service, El Portal, California USA (M. Weinburke, G. Carroll)

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Figure 2

Peromyscus rodent trap success and seroprevalence (with sample sizes) of SNV in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), Yosemite National Park, California, USA, 2012–2018. A) Yosemite Valley; B) Tuolumne Meadows. Numbers in parentheses indicate no. positive deer mice/no. tested. Figures include data from the August and September 2012 outbreak investigation (8) for reference. SNV, Sin Nombre virus.

Figure 2. Peromyscus rodent trap success and seroprevalence (with sample sizes) of SNV in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), Yosemite National Park, California, USA, 2012–2018. A) Yosemite Valley; B) Tuolumne Meadows. Numbers in parentheses indicate no. positive deer mice/no. tested. Figures include data from the August and September 2012 outbreak investigation (8) for reference. SNV, Sin Nombre virus.

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