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The marsh rice rat is quite susceptible to periodontitis and has been used as a model system for the study of that disease. [185] The marsh rice rat is the primary host of the Bayou virus (BAYV), the second-most common agent of hantavirus infections in the United States.
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread species of common rat. One of the largest muroids, it is a brown or grey rodent with a body length of up to 28 cm (11 in) long, and a tail slightly shorter than that. It weighs between 140 ...
Rodent mite dermatitis (also known as rat mite dermatitis) is an often unrecognized ectoparasitosis occurring after human contact with haematophagous mesostigmatid mites that infest rodents, such as house mice, [1] rats [2] and hamsters. [3]
New York City officials have started mitigating this problem when they began the “Herculean task of getting all 44 million daily pounds of rat-attracting trash off the streets,” Jessica Tisch ...
When searching for food is dangerous or unproductive, animals often use food stores to supply all or part of their diet. This is a feasible strategy to avoid food shortage. It is the habit of collecting and storing both food and nonfood items that has earned the eastern woodrat is other common name of "pack-rat" or "trade rat". [17]
Ornithonyssus bacoti (also known as the tropical rat mite and formerly called Liponyssus bacoti) is a hematophagous parasite. [1] It feeds on blood and serum from many hosts. [2] [3] O. bacoti can be found and cause disease on rats and wild rodents most commonly, but also small mammals and humans when other hosts are scarce.
Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, also known as the long-tailed colilargo [2] or long-tailed pygmy rice rat, [1] is a species of rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of the family Cricetidae. It is found in the southern Andes of Chile and Argentina , with an outlying population in eastern Argentina.
Spalacids are mouse- to rat-sized rodents, adapted to burrowing and living underground.They have short limbs, wedge-shaped skulls, strong neck muscles, large incisor teeth, and small eyes and external ears.