A temporal dilution effect: Hantavirus infection in deer mice and the intermittent presence of voles in Montana

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 713-721

  Carver, Scott ^a,b   Kuenzi, Amy ^a   Bagamian, Karoun H ^c   Mills, James N ^d   Rollin, Pierre E ^d   Zanto, Susanne N ^e   Douglass, Richard ^a  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Density independence; Dilution effect; Sin Nombre virus; Temporal; Transmission

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; PATHOGEN; PERSISTENCE; RODENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BLOOD; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASE; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; MALE; MONTANA; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; HANTAVIRUS; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

EID: 79958751941     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1882-z     Document Type: Article

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