Publications by authors named "Tyla S Holsomback"
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- The marsh rice rat is the main host for the Bayou hantavirus in the southeastern USA, with female distribution influenced by habitat resources and predation risks.
- A study tracked female and male rice rats over 30 months, analyzing their habitats to understand how females impact male transmission of the virus.
- Results showed that male rats were more frequently found near breeding females, suggesting that the search for these females could play a key role in the transmission of the Bayou virus among males.
In the United States, Bayou virus (BAYV) ranks second only to Sin Nombre virus (SNV) in terms of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) incidents, having been confirmed in cases from Texas and Louisiana since its discovery in 1994. This study on BAYV infection among sympatric, non-oryzomyine rodents ("spillover") in Freeport, TX, is the first to link patterns of hantavirus interspecific spillover with the spatiotemporal ecology of the primary host (marsh rice rat, Oryzomys palustris). Mark-recapture and/or harvest methods were employed from March 2002 through May 2004 in two macrohabitat types.
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