James N. Mills

Epidemiological considerations of rodent community composition in fragmented landscapes in Panama (2008)

Gerardo Suzán, Anibal Armién, James N. Mills, Erika Marcé, Gerardo Ceballos, Mario Ávila, ...

We predicted that more-fragmented habitats are associated with lower diversity of small mammals and higher densities of populations of rodents that are hosts of hantaviruses. We compared diversity...

Satellite imagery characterizes local animal reservoir populations of Sin Nombre virus in the southwestern United States

Glass, Gregory E., Yates, Terry L., Fine, Joshua B., Shields, Timothy M., Kendall, John B., Hope, Andrew G., ...

The relationship between the risk of hantaviral pulmonary syndrome (HPS), as estimated from satellite imagery, and local rodent populations was examined. HPS risk, predicted before rodent sampling,...

Satellite imagery characterizes local animal reservoir populations of Sin Nombre virus in the southwestern United States

Glass, Gregory E., Yates, Terry L., Fine, Joshua B., Shields, Timothy M., Kendall, John B., Hope, Andrew G., ...

The relationship between the risk of hantaviral pulmonary syndrome (HPS), as estimated from satellite imagery, and local rodent populations was examined. HPS risk, predicted before rodent sampling,...

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Mills, James N.

Report (M. Eng.)--Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College Graduate Center.

Experimental Evidence for Reduced Rodent Diversity Causing Increased Hantavirus Prevalence

Suzán, Gerardo, Marcé, Erika, Giermakowski, J. Tomasz, Mills, James N., Ceballos, Gerardo, Ostfeld, Richard S., ...

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases have become a major global environmental problem with important public health, economic, and political consequences. The etiologic agents of most emerging...

Isolation of Genetically Diverse Marburg Viruses from Egyptian Fruit Bats

Towner, Jonathan S., Amman, Brian R., Sealy, Tara K., Carroll, Serena A. Reeder, Comer, James A., Kemp, Alan, ...

In July and September 2007, miners working in Kitaka Cave, Uganda, were diagnosed with Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The likely source of infection in the cave was Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus...

Nipah Virus Infection in Dogs, Malaysia, 1999

Mills, James N., Alim, Asiah N.M., Bunning, Michel L., Lee, Ong Bee, Wagoner, Kent D., Amman, Brian R., ...

The 1999 outbreak of Nipah virus encephalitis in humans and pigs in Peninsular Malaysia ended with the evacuation of humans and culling of pigs in the epidemic area. Serologic screening showed that,...