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Cotton Rat
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Cotton Rat
A popular animal model first used in polio research, which is a model of choice for research in measles—paramyxovirus—herpes simplex, influenza—orthomyxovirus—HIV-1, respiratory syncytial virus, and adenovirus-based gene replacement research


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Materials and Methods Animals During October 2007, wild rodents of 5 species were collected from coastal Chiapas, Mexico: Baiomys musculus (southern pygmy mouse), Liomys salvini (Salvins spiny pocket mouse), Oligoryzomys fulvescens (fulvus pygmy rice rat), Oryzomys couesi (Coues' rice rat) and Sigmodon hispidus (hispid cotton rat).
Genetic and Serologic Analysis of Black Creek Canal Virus and its Association with Human Disease and Sigmodon hispidus Infection.
The identified rodent reservoirs for these viruses - Peromyscus maniculatus and leucopus (deer and white-looted mice) for Sin Nombre virus and its variants and Sigmodon hispidus (cotton rat) for Black Creek Canal virus - extend across the continental United States.
 
 
 
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