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Parasitology (137)10 2010
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We asked what are the factors that affect the manifestation and extent of gender-biased parasitism and studied the relationship between parasite-related (mean abundance, mean species richness and total species richness of all parasites), host-related (rodent density and proportion of reproductive ma...
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PMID: 20550754
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We raised polyclonal antibodies by immunizations of rabbits. These antibodies specifically identified pro-MMP-9 in incisional skin wound extracts from mice when used for Western blotting. Immunohistochemical analysis of paraffin embedded skin wounds from mice showed that MMP-9 protein was localized...
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PMID: 20214994
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We tested samples from small mammals from 3 villages, including Soromba, where in 2009 a British citizen probably contracted a lethal Lassa virus infection. We report the isolation and genetic characterization of Lassa virus from an area previously unknown for Lassa fever....
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PMID: 20587185
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Journal of Parasitology (96)3 2010
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Helminths, 3 cestode and 8 nematode species, including 2 new genera, 5 new species, and 1 putative new species, of nematode were collected from the digestive tracts of 23 Lorentzimys nouhuysi (Murinae; Hydromyini) from Papua New Guinea. Odilia wauensis n. sp. (Heligmonellidae) most closely resembles...
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PMID: 20557207
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The present investigation deals with the evaluation of antifilarial efficacy of liposome entrapped antiwolbachial antibiotics doxycycline and rifampicin (5 doses at 10 mg/kg, subcutaneously for 15 days) alone and/or in combination with standard filaricide diethylcarbamazine (DEC) against human lymph...
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PMID: 19954408
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Journal of General Virology (91)Pt 5 2010
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We propose MWV as a tentative novel species in the Lassa-lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus complex, based on its isolation from a novel rodent species and its genetic and serological characteristics....
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PMID: 20071489
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After passage, HV positive mouse body mite group out of both 5 and 10 mites in the sixth generation, OT positive mouse body mite group out of the 10 mites in the sixth generation, both HV and OT positive mouse body mite group out of 1 mite in the fifth and sixth generation, both HV and OT positive m...
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PMID: 20654145
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Parasitology (137)4 2010
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We asked whether the occurrence and the extent of host gender-biased parasitism vary among higher parasite taxa, among individual species within these taxa and within parasite species among localities. To answer this question, we studied prevalence, abundance, species richness and the level of aggre...
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PMID: 19835648
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Journal of General Virology (91)Pt 4 2010
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Two novel gammaherpesviruses were isolated, one from a field vole (Microtus agrestis) and the other from wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus). The genome of the latter, designated wood mouse herpesvirus (WMHV), was completely sequenced. WMHV had the same genome structure and predicted gene content as mur...
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PMID: 19940063
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Journal of Helminthology (84)1 2010
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Our findings show that, after an environmental disaster, the behaviour of helminth species might be related to their pre-catastrophe presence, their biological cycles, the host's immunological condition, the change of host dynamics, the direct effects of the perturbation, and the processes related t...
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PMID: 19580689
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We have previously developed a model of near-term intra-uterine hypoxia producing significant neonatal mortality (37%) in a small laboratory animal - the spiny mouse - which has precocial offspring at birth. The aim of the present study was to determine if this insult resulted in the appearance of b...
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PMID: 19590246
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Voprosy Virusologii (55)2 2010
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This paper presents data on the detection of hantavirus in the excretory organs of Apodemus mice which are natural carriers of pathogenic hantaviral serotypes in the Primorye Region. Acute infection periods were detected in naturally infected rodents with the highest hantavirus dissemination to the...
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PMID: 20455471
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We suppose that Asian race can be considered as independent allopatric species. This is supported by following evidences: high divergence level (which proposes more than 1 mya of divergent evolution) between races, absence of common haplotypes and hiatus between main peaks of mismatch distribution,...
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PMID: 21090235
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Malaria Journal (9) 2010
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This study was initiated to establish whether any South African ethnomedicinal plants (indigenous or exotic), that have been reported to be used traditionally to repel or kill mosquitoes, exhibit effective mosquito repellent properties.
Extracts of a selection of South African taxa were tested for r...
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PMID: 21029442
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Neuroscience (165)2 2010
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We investigated the association between chronotype and Fos expression during the day and night in three major nuclei in the basal forebrain (BF) cholinergic (ACh) arousal system - medial septum (MS), vertical and horizontal diagonal band of Broca (VDB and HDB respectively) -, and whether neural acti...
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PMID: 19837140
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A survey to determine the geographical distribution and relative abundance of potential vectors of scrub typhus was conducted from October to November 2006 at 13 localities throughout the Republic of Korea. Apodemus agrarius accounted for 97.6% (80/82) of all rodents, while only 2 Myodes regulus (2/...
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PMID: 19967086
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We used artificial seeds to partition the effects of seed size, tannin content, and nutrient content on scatter-hoarding rodents in a natural pine forest in Northwest Yunnan, China. Apodemus, a common genus of Old World rodents, consistently consumed small seeds in situ but removed medium-sized seed...
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PMID: 19967858
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (15)11 2009
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Four US soldiers acquired hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome while training near the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, in 2005. Hantaan virus sequences were amplified by reverse transcription-PCR from patient serum samples and from lung tissues of striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius) captured at...
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PMID: 19891878
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We report that peroxidase cyt c/CL complexes can utilize free fatty acid hydroperoxides (FFA-OOH) at exceptionally high rates that are approximately 3 orders of magnitude higher than for H(2)O(2). Similarly, peroxidase activity of murine liver mitochondria was high with FFA-OOH. Using EPR spin trapp...
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PMID: 19627079
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Two bacterial strains, Fuji 18-1(T) and Fuji 23-1(T), were isolated from the blood of the small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus) and the large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus), respectively, specimens of which were captured in the forest of Mount Fuji, Japan. Phenot...
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PMID: 19656930
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Journal of Biological Chemistry (284)30 2009
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We show here that the protein levels of upstream stimulatory factor (USF) increase during differentiation of murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells. USF was subject to degradation by the Ca(2+)-dependent protease m-calpain in undifferentiated but not in differentiated MEL cells. Treatment of MEL cells w...
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PMID: 19491096
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A new series of 20 quinoline derivatives possessing triazolo, ureido and thioureido substituents have been synthesized and their antimycobacterial properties have been evaluated. Compounds 10, 22 and 24 inhibited Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv up to 96%, 98% and 94% respectively, a...
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PMID: 19457676
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In this investigation on endoparasites (helminths) and ectoparasites of the Nile rat (Arvicanthis niloticus Desmarest, 1822), a total of 220 Nile rats were trapped from different regions of Sudan during the period January 2003-January 2006. Examination of different tissues, identific...
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PMID: 21392288
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Parasitology (136)7 2009
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We analysed 3 independently collected datasets of fully censused helminth burdens in wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, testing the a priori hypothesis of Behnke et al. (2005) that the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus predisposes wood mice to carrying other species of helmi...
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PMID: 19486546
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Hematology (14)3 2009
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We show that CTLA-4-induced suppression of IL-2 production correlates with rapid destabilization of immunological synapse (IS) formation in murine normal T cell clones. Overexpression of Spa-1, a Rap-1-specific GTPase activating protein (GAP), abolished both Rap-1 activation and IL-2 suppression ind...
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PMID: 19490760
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Genetika (Moskva) (45)4 2009
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Several hypotheses concerning variations in the frequency of some elementary events determining the formation and reorganization of mammalian B chromosomes are proposed on the basis of the data on their number, morphology, and DNA composition in Korean field mice Apodemus peninsulae (Mammalia, Roden...
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PMID: 19507698
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Zoological Science (26)4 2009
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We investigated geographic variation in morphological traits of the large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus) from the Izu Island Group, Japan. There was sexual dimorphism in external characters and cranial measurements; hence, these were considered in subsequent analyses. There was geographic...
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PMID: 19798920
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Journal of Helminthology (83)1 2009
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A water-insoluble, detergent-soluble, surface-associated glycoprotein, designated as Dssd1, was found to induce microfilaria clearance in Mastomys coucha implanted with Setaria digitata. Intraperitoneal implantation of adult female worms of S. digitata in M. coucha could induce microfilaraemia lasti...
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PMID: 18922206
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2 strains virus (ZLS6-11 and ZLS-12) were successfully isolated from 7 positive lung samples of mice and were identified as HTNV by anti-McAb and phylogenetic analysis. With sequence compation,we found that 2 strains with complete M and S segment had higher homology with HTN-type strains than with o...
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PMID: 19565882
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We conducted a study to characterize etiologic agents of the outbreaks and clarify the origin of hantaviruses causing infections in humans and laboratory animals. Immunoglobulin (Ig) M or IgG antibodies against Seoul virus (SEOV) were detected in the serum samples of all 8 patients. IgG antibodies a...
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PMID: 19193263
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We present in this review show clearly that unintentional Helicobacter infection has the potential to significantly interfere with the reliability of research studies based on murine models. Therefore, frequent screening of rodent research colonies for Helicobacter spp. and the eradication of these...
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PMID: 19295050
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We developed a model of birth asphyxia resulting in mild neurological injury and cognitive impairment using a long-gestation species with precocial fetal development. Spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) underwent caesarean-section delivery or 7.5 min of asphyxia at 37 days gestational age (term is 39 days...
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PMID: 19851070
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There is extensive and convincing evidence from experimental studies that interactions exist between helminths of different species during concurrent infections in laboratory rodents. Among the strongest interactions are those that arise from immune responses of the hosts. However, detecting compara...
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PMID: 20209801
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The experience in combining disinfestation and forestry engineering measures is described to achieve a long-term effect: in minimizing the number of murine rodents, which has considerably reduced the amount of poisoned baits placed into the environment when disinfestation is made in open areas.
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PMID: 19802943
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We demonstrate that A. agrarius mice transcribe two unique alternatively spliced testicular CD46 mRNA transcripts, both lacking exon 7, which differ from those described previously in other Apodemus species. The larger A. agrarius CD46 transcript has an insert between exons 10 and 11 which, if trans...
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PMID: 19371423
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Mastomys natalensis is the major pest rodent in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, population genetic techniques were used to gain new insights into its dispersal behaviour, a critical parameter in pest management. Using 11 microsatellites, 272 individuals from a 300 ha area in Tanzania were genotyp...
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PMID: 19200138
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Genetika (Moskva) (44)12 2008
[Diversity and individuality of variants of the system of B chromosomes in mice Apodemus peninsulae]
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We infer that most of animals studied (196 out of 312, or 63%) have an individual variant of the B chromosome system. Only three mice lacked B chromosomes. New data for 44 A. peninsulae mice caught in 2000-2005 in 16 localities of seven regions of Altai, Siberia, and Pribaikal'e showed that all of t...
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PMID: 19178085
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Journal of Medical Microbiology (57)Pt 12 2008
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An increasing number of Bartonella species originally isolated from small mammals have been identified as emerging human pathogens. During an investigation of Bartonella infection in rodent populations carried out in Taiwan in 2006, a total of 58 rodents were tested. It was determined that 10.3 % (6...
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PMID: 19018019
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (14)12 2008
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Two new species of heligmosomoid Trichostrongylina nematodes belonging to the genera Neoheligmonella Durette-Desset, 1970 and Heligmonina Baylis, 1928 are described. They are parasitic in the small intestine of three species of Mastomys from Senegal living in sympatry: M. natalensis (Smith, 1834), M...
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PMID: 19202761
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We surveyed reservoir animals of leptospires in the northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture, where a cluster of human leptospirosis had occurred during the summer of 2006. Leptospira was isolated from 6 of 57 large Japanese field mice (Apodemus speciosus). The serogroups of the isolates were Autumnalis...
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PMID: 19050356
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Parasitology Research (103)5 2008
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Cytokine (interferon (IFN)-gamma, interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10) gene transcription in response to filarial antigens was determined in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of Brugia malayi-infected Mastomys coucha in the course of untreated and chemotherapeutically abbreviated infections. Tran...
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PMID: 18679719
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Journal of Ethnopharmacology (119)2 2008
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13 extracts (28%) were active in vitro with MIC-values < or = 100 microg/ml, 6 extracts showed MIC-values < or = 50 microg/ml. The root extract of Securidaca longepedunculata Fresen. (Polygalaceae) and the leaf extract of Guiera senegalensis J. F. Gmel. (Combretaceae) were able to reduce parasitaemi...
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PMID: 18638537
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Neuroscience (156)1 2008
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We examined rhythms in one element of the circadian oscillator, the PER1 protein, in a variety of cell populations in brains of diurnal female grass rats. Every 4 h five adult female grass rats kept on a 12-h light/dark (LD) cycle were perfused and their brains were processed for immunohistochemical...
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PMID: 18692118
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Genetika (Moskva) (44)9 2008
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A new evolutionary genetic phenomenon - increase in the number of B-chromosomes (almost threefold) accompanied by change in B chromosome morphotypes - was discovered in the Artybash population of East Asian mouse Apodemus peninsulae (Mountain Altai) over a historically short period (22 years), compa...
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PMID: 18846820
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Of the 385 persons enrolled, 29.6 per cent showed evidence of past leptospiral infection. Many locally prevalent serogroups and changing patterns of prevalence in humans were identified in the five consecutive years of the study. The major serogroups were autumnalis, louisiana, australis, and grippo...
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PMID: 19052343
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5' EST from filarial gene database has been subjected to 3' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE), semi-nested PCR and PCR to obtain full-length cDNA of Brugia malayi. Full-length hexokinase gene was obtained from cDNA using gene specific primers. The elicited PCR product was cloned, sequenced and...
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PMID: 18499511
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The objective of the study was to analyze the epidemiological features of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Montenegro. The study included 169 cases of HFRS diagnosed in the period between 1995 and 2005 according to the clinical symptoms and serological confirmation. For the analysis o...
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PMID: 18806348
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Genetika (Moskva) (44)8 2008
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Instability of B-chromosomes was estimated in somatic and germline cells of samples Apodemus peninsulae from different localities of the species range. In 84 out of 188 animals (45%), in cells assessed for B-chromosome mosaicism, bone marrow cells with different B-chromosome number were observed. Th...
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PMID: 18825959
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Journal of Medical Microbiology (57)Pt 8 2008
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A molecular epidemiological survey was conducted to investigate the presence of pathogenic Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) species in the forest areas of Zhejiang province, south-east China. A total of 182 ticks of 6 species and 200 rodents of 8 species were collected and individually examine...
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PMID: 18628499
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Journal of General Virology (89)Pt 8 2008
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Our results reveal that the highest genetic diversity of HTNV is in a limited geographical region of Guizhou, and suggest that Guizhou might be a radiation centre of the present form of HTNV....
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PMID: 18632971
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Experimental Animals (57)4 2008
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We can exactly check the LCMV contamination in laboratory animals....
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PMID: 18633158
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These results suggest that multiple Herpetosoma species or strains are enzootic to Thailand, and that Rattus and Bandicota species are possible sources of human exposure to these parasites....
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PMID: 17904918
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Biochemical Genetics (46)5-6 2008
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Our data show eight extant lineages of Late Tertiary origin: Apodemus agrarius, A. semotus, A. peninsulae, A. speciosus, A. argenteus, A. gurkha, A. mystacinus, and A. sylvaticus. Monophyly of two European lineages (A. mystacinus and A. sylvaticus) and four Asian lineages (A. agrarius, A. semotus, A...
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PMID: 18231851
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Parassitologia (50)1-2 2008
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A brief review of the arboviruses isolated In Italy is presented and discussed. Some of the Arboviruses considered in this paper are endemic in the country and are transmitted by arthropods that play actually a role of vectors, (sand flyes, hard ticks and mosquitoes); other arboviruses, sporadically...
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PMID: 18693572
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Journal of Parasitology (94)3 2008
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A total of 210 individuals of 13 species belonging to 4 subfamilies of Muridae imported into Japan as pets were examined; 5 species of Syphacia (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), Aspiculuris tetraptera (Nematoda: Heteroxynematidae), and Rodentolepis nana (Cestoidea: Hymenolepididae) were collected. Concurrent i...
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PMID: 18605784
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Notomys alexis (Spinifex hopping mouse) is found in the arid zone of Australia. The structure and function of the kidneys allow this species to conserve water. This study investigated the rate at which N. alexis can reduce urine volume and increase the concentration of electrolytes and solutes when...
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PMID: 17374563
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These results are in agreement with the hypothesis that prolactin is one proximate mechanism of male reproductive tactics, possibly regulating differences in male parental care....
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PMID: 18230588
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