Russell E. Enscore

TL;DR: The numeric dominance of P. maniculatus, the high prevalence of antibody, and the RT-PCR findings implicate this species as the primary rodent reservoir for a new hantavirus in the southwestern United States.

TL;DR: Study of this outbreak of primary pneumonic tularemia on Martha's Vineyard implicates lawn mowing and brush cutting as risk factors for this infection.

TL;DR: The 1993 U.S. hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak was attributed to environmental conditions and increased rodent populations caused by unusual weather in 1991- 92 and Repeated analysis using satellite imagery from 1995 showed substantial decrease in medium- to high-risk areas.

TL;DR: The relationships between climatic variables and the frequency of human plague cases were modeled by Poisson regression for two adjoining regions in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, suggesting that temporal variations in plague risk can be estimated by monitoring key climatic variable values.

TL;DR: Burrows within black-tailed prairie dog colonies on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, were dusted with deltamethrin insecticide to reduce flea abundance to significantly reduce populations of the plague vector Oropsylla hirsuta and other flea species.