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. 2010 Aug;10(6):629–637. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0206

Rodents Captured in New Mexico, Texas, or Mexico, 1995–2008, by Species and State or Geographical Region in Texasa

Species Number of rodents (state or region in Texas) Antibody prevalenceb
Baiomys musculus 38 (CH), 3 (JA), 1 (MH), 14 (OA), 1 (VZ) 0/57
Baiomys taylori 20 (TX-CP), 48 (TX-GCP), 18 (TX-HP), 1 (TX-PW), 28 (CI), 1 (GJ), 1 (GR), 29 (JA), 5 (MH), 1 (NL), 4 (PU), 9 (SI), 2 (TM) 8/167
Habromys ixtlani 5 (OA) 0/5
Habromys schmidlyi 2 (EM) 0/2
Habromys sp. 1 (VZ) 0/1
Hodomys alleni 1 (OA) 0/1
Megadontomys cryophilus 4 (OA) 0/4
Megadontomys nelsoni 2 (HG), 10 (VZ) 1/12
Megadontomys thomasi 16 (GR) 0/16
Neotoma albigula 48 (NM), 9 (CI), 6 (SO) 0/63
Neotoma floridana 1 (TX-PW) 0/1
Neotoma leucodon 5 (TX-CP), 22 (NL), 15 (SL) 12/42
Neotoma mexicana 7 (TX-MB), 1 (CH), 3 (GR), 3 (MH), 3 (NA), 2 (NL), 4 (OA), 3 (VZ) 1/26
Neotoma micropus 29 (NM), 6 (TX-CP), 6 (TX-GCP), 58 (TX-HP), 11 (TX-MB), 18 (NL), 26 (TM) 19/154
Neotoma sp. 1 (NL) 0/1
Neotomodon alstoni 6 (EM), 1 (MH) 0/7
Oligoryzomys fulvescens 24 (CH), 1 (SL), 2 (TA) 0/27
Onychomys arenicola 2 (NM), 2 (TX-MB) 0/4
Onychomys leucogaster 11 (NM), 2 (TX-CP), 5 (TX-HP), 8 (TX-MB), 22 (CI), 2 (NL), 3 (SL), 8 (TM) 3/61
Onychomys torridus 3 (SO) 0/3
Oryzomys alfaroi 1 (OA), 2 (PU), 3 (VZ) 0/6
Oryzomys chapmani 5 (CH), 6 (HG), 8 (OA), 6 (VZ) 0/25
Oryzomys couesi 2 (TX-GCP), 10 (CH), 3 (NL), 8 (OA), 14 (TA), 6 (VZ) 1/43
Oryzomys melanotis 4 (SL) 0/4
Oryzomys palustris 185 (TX-GCP) 7/185
Oryzomys rostratus 1 (PU) 0/1
Oryzomys spp. 24 (CH), 4 (GR), 2 (MH), 8 (OA), 3 (PU), 23 (VZ) 0/64
Osgoodomys banderanus 2 (JA), 11 (MH), 2 (NA) 0/15
Peromyscus attwateri 400 (TX-CP), 43 (TX-HP) 3/443
Peromyscus aztecus 3 (CH), 1 (EM), 4 (GR), 2 (HG), 15 (OA) 0/25
Peromyscus beatae 3 (CH), 6 (GR), 21 (OA), 4 (VZ) 0/34
Peromyscus boylii 286 (TX-MB), 3 (CI), 1 (EM), 2 (JA), 11 (NL), 5 (SL), 6 (SO) 3/314
Peromyscus difficilis 1 (OA), 1 (SL), 8 (TL) 0/10
Peromyscus eremicus 10 (NM), 36 (TX-MB), 8 (CU), 13 (NL), 8 (SL) 0/75
Peromyscus furvus 25 (HG), 1 (PU), 27 (VZ) 0/53
Peromyscus gossypinus 5 (TX-PW) 0/5
Peromyscus gratus 5 (JA), 5 (PU) 0/10
Peromyscus hooperi 6 (CU) 0/6
Peromyscus hylocetes 8 (EM) 0/8
Peromyscus leucopus 19 (NM), 78 (TX-CP), 23 (TX-GCP), 152 (TX-HP), 9 (TX-MB), 20 (TX-PW), 60 (NL), 2 (SL), 69 (TM) 11/432
Peromyscus levipes 2 (EM), 2 (GR), 1 (MH), 43 (NL), 16 (SL) 0/64
Peromyscus maniculatus 13 (NM), 9 (TX-CP), 69 (TX-HP), 18 (TX-MB), 22 (NL), 8 (SL), 1 (TL), 5 (VZ) 9/145
Peromyscus megalops 61 (GR) 1/61
Peromyscus melanocarpus 15 (OA) 0/15
Peromyscus melanophrys 5 (GJ), 1 (JA), 9 (NL), 5 (PU), 8 (SL) 2/28
Peromyscus melanotis 75 (EM), 1 (MH), 59 (VZ) 1/135
Peromyscus merriami 6 (SO) 0/6
Peromyscus mexicanus 31 (CH), 9 (OA), 4 (PU), 12 (VZ) 4/56
Peromyscus nasutus 16 (TX-MB) 0/16
Peromyscus ochraventer 11 (SL) 0/11
Peromyscus pectoralis 389 (TX-CP), 21 (TX-MB), 2 (CU), 23 (NL), 6 (SL), 1 (TM) 0/442
Peromyscus schmidlyi 1 (SO) 0/1
Peromyscus spicilegus 24 (JA), 7 (MH) 0/31
Peromyscus truei 1 (CI), 1 (TM) 0/2
Peromyscus zarhynchus 2 (CH) 0/2
Peromyscus spp. 11 (TX-CP), 21 (TX-GCP), 24 (CI), 7 (EM), 28 (GR), 4 (HG), 11 (JA), 54 (MH), 27 (NA), 12 (NL), 16 (OA), 61 (PU), 1 (SL), 16 (VZ) 7/293
Reithrodontomys bakeri 3 (GR) 0/3
Reithrodontomys fulvescens 1 (TX-CP), 27 (TX-GCP), 20 (TX-HP), 2 (TX-MB), 9 (TX-PW), 1 (CI), 3 (JA), 4 (NL), 1 (OA), 1 (PU), 5 (SL), 2 (VZ) 0/76
Reithrodontomys gracilis 2 (CH) 0/2
Reithrodontomys megalotis 11 (NM), 31 (TX-HP), 16 (TX-MB), 4 (EM), 4 (JA), 4 (NL), 11 (PU), 5 (SL), 7 (TL), 1 (TM) 0/94
Reithrodontomys mexicanus 1 (HG), 7 (JA), 17 (MH), 1 (PU), 1 (SL), 21 (VZ) 0/48
Reithrodontomys microdon 3 (MH), 1 (OA) 0/4
Reithrodontomys montanus 10 (TX-HP), 1 (TX-MB) 0/11
Reithrodontomys sumichrasti 3 (CH), 36 (GR), 7 (HG), 16 (MH), 9 (PU), 11 (VZ) 2/82
Reithrodontomys spp. 32 (TX-HP), 7 (EM), 1 (GR), 1 (JA), 15 (VZ) 1/56
Sigmodon alleni 1 (JA) 0/1
Sigmodon hispidus 20 (NM), 80 (TX-CP), 141 (TX-GCP), 279 (TX-HP), 3 (TX-MB), 22 (TX-PW), 5 (CI), 41 (NL), 5 (PU), 2 (SL), 29 (TM) 2/627
Sigmodon mascotensis 11 (CH), 2 (GJ), 1 (GR), 21 (JA), 2 (MH), 1 (NA), 14 (OA) 0/52
Sigmodon ochrognathus 12 (TX-MB), 1 (CI) 0/13
Sigmodon toltecus 1 (CH), 1 (NL), 38 (TA), 1 (TM), 30 (VZ) 2/71
Sigmodon spp. 23 (CH), 5 (MH), 4 (OA) 0/32
Tylomys sp. 1 (CH) 0/1
  Total 100/4893
a

NM, New Mexico (Otero County); TX-CP, Central Plains of Texas (Blanco, Brown, Coleman, Dimmit, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, and McMullen counties); TX-GCP, Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas (Brazoria, Cameron, Galveston, and Matagorda); TX-HP, High Plains of Texas (Cottle, Dickens, Donley, Hall, Lubbock, Lynn, and Motley); TX-MB, Mountains and Basins of Texas (Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Ward); TX-PW, Piney Woods of Texas (Anderson, Bowie, Lamar, and Morris); CH, Chiapas (municipalities of Berriozábal, Mapastepec, Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Pijijiapan, and Zinacantán); CI, Chihuahua (Cusihuiriáchi and Janos); CU, Coahuila (Monclova); EM, Estado de México (Ecatepec de Morelos, Toluca, Villa del Carbón, and Zacualpan); GJ, Guanajuato (Allende); GR, Guerrero (Chilpancingo de los Bravo and Malinaltepec); HG, Hidalgo (Agua Blanca); JA, Jalisco (Autlán de Navarro, Cocula, Jocotepec, and Ojuelos de Jalisco); MH, Michoacán (Coalcomán, Dos Aguas, Morelia, Múgica, Pátzcuaro, Santa Clara, Uruapan, Zinapécuaro, and Zitácuaro); NA, Nayarit (San Blas and Santa María del Oro); NL, Nuevo León (Allende, Apodaca, Aramberri, Ciénega de Flores, Doctor Arroyo, Galeana, General Escobedo, General Zaragoza, Iturbide, Lampazos de Naranjo, Linares, Los Aldama, Mina, Monterrey, Salinas Victoria, and Santiago); OA, Oaxaca (Agua Fría Juxtlahuaca, Concepcíon Guerrero, Concepcíon Pápalo, Guichicovi, Oaxaca de Juárez, Putla de Guerrero, San Pedro Mixtepec, and Santo Domingo Zanatepec); PU, Puebla (Las Margaritas, Tehuacán, Vicente Guerrero, and Zacatlán); SL, San Luis Potosí (Catorce, Cedral, Ciudad del Maíz, and Matehuala); SI, Sinaloa (Rosario); SO, Sonora (Navojoa and Yocora); TA, Tabasco (Emiliano Zapata); TL, Tlaxcala (Tepetitla de Lardizabal); TM, Tamaulipas (Ciudad Guerrero, San Fernando, La Pesca, and Matamoros); VZ, Veracruz (Acajete, Coatzacoalcos, Minatitlán, Perote, Poza Rica, Puerto del Aire, San Andrés Tuxtla, Sontecomapan, and Xico). The antibody-positive rodents were from the states or regions that are underlined.

b

Number positive/number tested for antibody (immunoglobulin G) to arenaviruses.