Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 We analyzed epidemiologic characteristics and distribution of 1,067 human plague cases and 5,958 Yersinia pestis isolates collected from humans, host animals, and insect vectors during 1950–2019 in 4 Marmota plague foci in China.
Zhaokai He +16 more
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Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Marmota himalayana
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background Human granulocytic anaplasmosis is a tick-borne zoonotic disease caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Coinfections with A. phagocytophilum and other tick-borne pathogens are reported frequently, whereas the relationship between A ...
Ran Duan +15 more
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Transcriptome Analysis and Comparison of Marmota monax and Marmota himalayana. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The Eastern woodchuck (Marmota monax) is a classical animal model for studying hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in humans.
Yanan Liu +8 more
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Plague Outbreak of a Marmota himalayana Family Emerging from Hibernation
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2022 In April 2021, a plague outbreak was identified within one Marmota himalayana family shortly after emerging from hibernation, during plague surveillance in the M. himalayana plague foci of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Xin Wang
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CORONAVIRUSES DETECTION IN ITALIAN ALPINE MARMOTS (MARMOTA MARMOTA)
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Intro: Coronaviruses infect humans and a wide range of wild and domestic animals. Some CoVs could be zoonotic, being able to mutate, crossing the species barrier and infecting humans (e.g. SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV).
T. Trogu +14 more
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Population Dynamics and Reintroduction Strategies for the Alpine Marmot in Romania [PDF]
AnimalsThe alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) once vanished from Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, but a reintroduction initiative launched in 1973 has since fostered population recovery.
Alexandru Gridan +5 more
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The genome of the American groundhog, Marmota monax [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
F1000Research, 2020 We sequenced the genome of the North American groundhog, Marmota monax, also known as the woodchuck. Our sequencing strategy included a combination of short, high-quality Illumina reads plus long reads generated by both Pacific Biosciences and Oxford ...
Daniela Puiu +6 more
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Los micromamíferos (Eulipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia y Lagomorpha) del yacimiento del Pleistoceno Superior de la cueva de El Sidrón (Asturias) [PDF]
Estudios Geologicos, 2018 En el yacimiento del Pleistoceno Superior de la cueva de El Sidrón, con una datación de ~49.000 ka, conocido por sus numerosos restos fósiles de neandertales, se han recuperado restos de micromamíferos cuyo estudio detallado se realiza en este trabajo ...
C. Sesé +2 more
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Species-level microbiota of ticks and fleas from Marmota himalayana in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionTicks and fleas, as blood-sucking arthropods, carry and transmit various zoonotic diseases. In the natural plague foci of China, monitoring of Yersinia pestis has been continuously conducted in Marmota himalayana and other host animals ...
Lingzhi Dong +23 more
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Higher risk of gastrointestinal parasite infection at lower elevation suggests possible constraints in the distributional niche of Alpine marmots. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Alpine marmots Marmota marmota occupy a narrow altitudinal niche within high elevation alpine environments. For animals living at such high elevations where resources are limited, parasitism represents a potential major cost in life history.
Stefania Zanet +5 more
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