Muridae

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Mu·ri·dae

(myū'ri-dē),

The largest family of Rodentia and of mammals, embracing the Old World mice and rats.

[L. mus (mur-), a mouse]

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dagger]) Member of the order Rodentia, family Muridae.

Exotic small mammals as potential reservoirs of zoonotic Bartonella spp

Polydactylism has been observed in Cricetidae (Price, 1969), Muridae (Brown, 1996), Leporidae (Murie, 1934), Sciuridae (Dunaway, 1969), Cynocephalidae (Shute and Bellaire, 1955), and Cervidae (Daniel and Kershaw, 1964; Miller and Cawley, 1970; Stone et al.

Polydactyly in the cave myotis (myotis velifer) in north-central Texas

These viruses are mainly transmitted through contact with the excreta of their natural hosts, rodents of the family Muridae.

Mastomys natalensis and Lassa fever, West Africa

Key words: neotropical rodents, Muridae, cloud forest, Microryzomys minutus, Venezuela.

Population dynamics of the rat Microryzomys minutus (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Venezuelan Andes

Stomach analysis indicated the animal had fed on a rodent of the family Muridae.

First record of a ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) from Refugio County, Texas

In contrast to other members of the Bunyaviridae, hantaviruses are not transmitted by arthropods but are spread by aerosolized excreta of rodents of the family Muridae, their natural hosts (1-4).

Hantavirus in African wood mouse, Guinea

La especie ha sido citada en Sudamerica para Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Peru (Johnson 1957) principalmente en aves de las familias Psittacidae, Hirundinidae, Muscicapidae, Strigidae y Columbidae y, ocasionalmente, en marsupiales Didelphidae y roedores Caviidae y Muridae (Autino y Lareschi 1998).

Hectopsylla psittaci (Siphonaptera: Tungidae) en Chile

A review of the spiny mouse genus Scolomys (Rodentia, Muridae, Sigmodontinae) with the description of a new species from the western Amazon of Brazil.

Nuevos datos sobre la distribucion de Scolomys ucayalensis (Rodentia: Cricetidae) Y Phylloderma stenops (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) en Ecuador

All hantaviruses that cause HPS are hosted by the rodent family Muridae, subfamily Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice).