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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2930 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pathogenic hantaviruses, northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay.(DISPATCHES)(Clinical report)
Author: Paula Padula
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 13Issue: 8Page: 1211(4)

Article Type: Clinical report

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Complexity, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We analyze data from a long-term field project in New Mexico, consisting of repeated sessions of mark-recaptures of Peromyscus maniculatus (Rodentia: Muridae), the host and reservoir of Sin Nombre virus (Bunyaviridae: Hantavirus). The displacements of the recaptured animals provide a means to study their movement from a statistical point of view. We extract two parameters from the data with the help of a simple model: the diffusion constant of the rodents, and the size of their home range. The short time behavior shows the motion to be approximately diffusive and the diffusion constant to be 470+/-50m^2/day. The long time behavior provides an estimation of the diameter of the rodent home ranges, with an average value of 100+/-25m. As in previous investigations directed at Zygodontomys brevicauda observations in Panama, we use a box model for home range estimation. We also use a harmonic model in the present investigation to study the sensitivity of the conclusions to the model used and find that both models lead to similar estimates. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1171 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Puumala virus RNA in patient with multiorgan failure.(LETTERS)
Author: Stefan Hoier
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12Issue: 2Page: 356(2)

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What every parent, householder, camper, hiker, fisherman and hunter needs to know.

Dr. Lendell Cockrum explains how bats, rodents and rabbits infect humans with infectious and parasitic diseases. Encephalitis (5 kinds), Lyme disease, Hanta Virus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Chagas' disease, tularemia, rabies, 5 kinds of plague, rickettsetialpox, typhus, valley fever and other diseases are fully described. This is vital information for the concerned layperson, as well as health professionals.

You'll enjoy the outdoors more and worry less with the information provided by this comprehensive new guide.

Learn about:

-The ABCs of Safety First

-Specific mammal types in each region

-Diseases and how they are transmitted

-Special precautions to observe

-Normal animal behavior patterns

-Disease symptoms in humans

-How to avoid contact with disease-bearing animals

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Hantaviruses are found world-wide and are associated with two severe disease syndromes, hemorrhagic fever and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The recent studies in this volume provide a basis for understanding the high human pathogenicity of theses viruses and their continued maintenance and transmission within rodent populations. ... Read more