Volume 16, Number 4—April 2010
Dispatch
Sympatric Occurrence of 3 Arenaviruses, Tanzania
Table 1
Arenavirus antibodies and arenaviruses in blood samples of small mammals around Morogoro, Tanzania, October 13–December 3, 2008
Species | No. trapped | Antibodies* |
Arenaviruses† |
Total positive, no. (%) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. examined | No. (%) positive | No. examined | No. (%) positive | ||||
Acomys spinosissimus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Crocidura sp. | 20 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
Dasymys incomtus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Lemniscomys rosalia‡ | 3 | 3 | 1 (33.3) | 3 | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66) | |
Mastomys natalensis | 511 | 480 | 58 (12.1) | 489 | 41 (8.4) | 93 (19) | |
Mus minutoides‡ | 7 | 5 | 1 (20) | 5 | 1 (20) | 2 (40) | |
Rattus rattus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Gerbilliscus robustus |
11 |
11 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total | 555 | 513 | 60 (11.7) | 523 | 43 (8.2) | 97 (18.5) |
*Detected by indirect immunofluorescent antibody testing.
†Large segment. Detected by reverse transcription–PCR.
‡Species identification was confirmed by sequencing mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.