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Peromyscus Leucopus
(redirected from white-footed mouse)

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White Footed Mouse
A wild mouse that is a carrier of deer ticks, which spread Lyme disease, and a reservoir for hantavirus, the Four Corners disease agent
Peromyscus leucopus
deermouse; called also white-footed mouse.
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The actual culprits appear to be the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), aka the field mouse, and the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus).
HANTAVIRUS, MICE AND US by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
For most host species for these ticks in nature, such as the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), protein databases currently are much less extensive.
Identification of residual blood proteins in ticks by mass ... by Wickramasekara, Samanthi; Bunikis, Jonas; Wysocki, Vicki; Barbour, Alan G. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The young forms of these ticks (nymphs) feed on the blood of rodents, particularly the white-footed mouse, which is a carrier of Lyme disease bacteria.
Lyme Disease-Symptoms and Causes of Lyme Disease by peterhutch / Health, general community
 
 
 
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