Volume 15, Number 7—July 2009
Research
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus in Wild Rodents, Northern Italy
Valentina Tagliapietra
, Roberto Rosà, Heidi C. Hauffe, Juha Laakkonen, Liina Voutilainen, Olli Vapalahti, Antti Vaheri, Heikki Henttonen, and Annapaola Rizzoli
, Roberto Rosà, Heidi C. Hauffe, Juha Laakkonen, Liina Voutilainen, Olli Vapalahti, Antti Vaheri, Heikki Henttonen, and Annapaola Rizzoli
Table
Prevalence of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in 5 rodent species at extensive trapping sites, northern Italy, 2002 and 2006*
| Region | Province | Site | Rodent species |
Total no. rodents | Seroprevalence, % (no. positive/ no. tested) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apodemus agrarius | A. flavicollis | A. sylvaticus | Myodes glareolus | Microtus arvalis | |||||
| VNT | BL | Candaten | 2 | 44 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 52 | 3.8 (2/52) |
| LOM | SO | Grosotto/Mazzo | 0 | 49 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 81 | 9.9 (8/81) |
| TAA | TN | Val Cembra | 0 | 97 | 4 | 26 | 5 | 132 | 8.3 (11/132) |
| TAA | TN | Val Fiemme | 0 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 5.5 (1/18) |
| TAA | TN | Laghi Lamar | 0 | 63 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 97 | 3.1 (3/97) |
| TAA | TN | Molveno | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 12.9 (4/31) |
| TAA | TN | Val Non | 0 | 35 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 65 | 13.8 (9/65) |
| TAA |
TN |
Val Sella |
0 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
28.6 (2/7) |
| Total† | 2 (0) | 336 (8.9) | 5 (0) | 135 (7.4) | 5 (20) | 483 (8.3) | |||
*VNT, Veneto; BL, Belluno; LOM, Lombardy; SO, Sondrio; TAA, Trentino-Alto Adige; TN, Trento.
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