Table 2.
Prevalence of Anti-Hantavirus Antibody in 775 Cricetid Rodents Captured in Texas in 1998–2007, By Locality
| Speciesb,c | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Localitya | Otex | Patt | Pboy | Plac | Pleu | Rful | Rmeg | Shis | Otherd | Total |
| 5.5 km east of New Deal, Lubbock County (July 6, 2005) | ||||||||||
| 0/5 | 1/13 | 3/56 (0/1) | 0/26 | 4/100 (0/1) | ||||||
| 13.8 km northeast of Lubbock, Lubbock County (June 9, 2005) | ||||||||||
| 3/8 (0/2) | 2/35 (0/1) | 0/6 | 5/49 (0/3) | |||||||
| 8.9 km north-northeast of Tahoka, Lynn County (July 9, 2007) | ||||||||||
| 1/10 (1/1) | 0/1 | 1/11 (1/1) | ||||||||
| Matador Wildlife Management Area, Cottle County (February 7–9, 1998) | ||||||||||
| 2/18 (1/2) | 3/25 (3/3) | 2/5 (1/2) | 0/4 | 0/9 | 7/61 (5/7) | |||||
| White Oak Creek Wildlife Management Area, Morris County (July 10–14, 1999) | ||||||||||
| 0/1 | 3/18 (3/3) | 0/1 | 3/20 (3/3) | |||||||
| Mt. Livermore Preserve, Jeff Davis County (July 14–19, 1998) | ||||||||||
| 2/82 (2/2) | 0/1 | 0/3 | 0/8 | 2/94 (2/2) | ||||||
| Mt. Livermore Preserve, Jeff Davis County (July 21–23, 1999) | ||||||||||
| 9/114 (3/3) | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/12 | 9/128 (3/3) | ||||||
| Kerr Wildlife Management Area, Kerr County (May 14–18, 1998) | ||||||||||
| 7/102 (4/5) | 1/7 (1/1) | 0/7 | 0/1 | 8/117 (5/6) | ||||||
| Virginia Point, Galveston County (May 24–28, 1998) | ||||||||||
| 5/32 (1/2) | 0/1 | 0/32 | 5/65 (1/2) | |||||||
| Peach Point Wildlife Management Area, Brazoria County (April 24, 1998) | ||||||||||
| 2/5 (1/1) | 0/8 | 0/1 | 2/14 (1/1) | |||||||
| Mad Island Wildlife Management Area, Matagorda County (April 25, 1998) | ||||||||||
| 1/7 (1/1) | 0/6 | 0/4 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 1/27 (1/1) | |||||
| Chaparral Wildlife Management Area-Web I, Dimmit County (March 13–15, 2001) | ||||||||||
| 1/20 (0/1) | 0/1 | 0/5 | 0/11 | 1/37 (0/1) | ||||||
| Chaparral Wildlife Management Area-Web II, Dimmit County (January 7–9, 2002) | ||||||||||
| 1/24 (1/1) | 0/4 | 0/3 | 0/21 | 1/52 (1/1) | ||||||
| Total | 8/44 (3/4) | 9/120 (5/7) | 11/196 (5/5) | 1/7 (1/1) | 5/84 (4/5) | 2/23 (1/2) | 4/24 (0/2) | 9/176 (4/6) | 0/101 | 49/775 (23/32) |
The antibody data from the rodents captured in 1998 or 1999 were published previously (Mantooth et al. 2001). One or more antibody-positive rodents from each locality were tested for hantaviral nucleocapsid (N) protein gene RNA.
New Deal—300 traps set on 1 night, 300 trap nights in tall grass alongside fields repopulated with native grasses, 33.3% trap success; near Lubbock—300 traps, 300 trap nights, tall grass alongside fields repopulated with native grasses, 16.3%; Tahoka—450 traps, 450 trap nights, tall grass alongside fields repopulated with native grasses, 2.4%; Matador Wildlife Management Area (WMA)—450 or 500 traps, 1450 trap nights, mesquite and juniper on grassland, 4.2%; White Oak Creek WMA—650 or 700 traps, 2700 trap nights, post oak on savannah, 0.7%; Mt. Livermore Preserve, 1998—500 traps, 2500 trap nights, montane pine-oak forest, 3.8%; Mt. Livermore Preserve, 1999—350, 400, or 700 traps, 1450 trap nights, montane pine-oak forest, 8.8%; Kerr WMA—200, 400, or 450 traps, 1050 trap nights, juniper grassland, 11.4%; Virginia Point—coastal marsh; Peach Point WMA—500 traps, 1000 trap nights, coastal marsh, 1.4%; Mad Island WMA—500 traps, 1000 trap nights, coastal marsh, 2.7%; Chaparral WMA, 2001—960 traps, 2880 trap nights, South Texas scrubland, 1.3%; Chaparral WMA, 2002—960 traps, 2880 trap nights, South Texas scrubland, 1.8%.
Otex, Oryzomys texensis, formerly recognized as O. palustris (Hanson et al. 2010); Patt, Peromyscus attwateri; Pboy, P. boylii; Plac, P. laceianus; Pleu, P. leucopus; Rful, Reithrodontomys fulvescens; Rmeg, R. megalotis; Shis, Sigmodon hispidus.
Number positive/number tested for anti-hantavirus antibody. (Number positive/number tested for nucleocapsid protein gene RNA.) All the rodents tested for nucleocapsid protein gene RNA were positive for anti-hantavirus antibody.
New Deal—P. maniculatus (n = 26); Lubbock—P. maniculatus (n = 6); Tahoka—Onychomys leucogaster (n = 1); Matador WMA—Neotoma micropus (n = 1), O. leucogaster (n = 2), P. maniculatus (n = 6); White Oak Creek WMA—P. gossypinus (n = 1); Mt. Livermore Preserve (1998)—N. mexicana (n = 5), O. arenicola (n = 1), S. ochrognathus (n = 2); Mt. Livermore Preserve (1999)—P. nasutus (n = 10), R. montanus (n = 1), S. ochrognathus (n = 1); Kerr WMA—N. leucodon (n = 1); Mad Island WMA—Baiomys taylori (n = 5); Chaparral WMA, Web I—N. micropus (n = 11); Chaparral WMA, Web II—N. micropus (n = 21).