Kim Heung-Chul, Klein Terry A, Chong Sung-Tae, Collier Brett W, Usa Msc, Yi Song Chu, Song Ki-Joon, Baek Luck-Ju, Song Jin-Won
5th Medical Detachment, 168th Medical Battalion, 18th Medical Command, Unit 15247, APO AP 96205-5247.
Mil Med. 2007 Jul;172(7):759-64. doi: 10.7205/milmed.172.7.759.
A seroepidemiological study of selected rodent-borne diseases (hantavirus [Seoul [SEO] virus], scrub typhus [Orientia tsutsugamushi], murine typhus [Rickettsia typhi], and leptospirosis [Leptospira interrogans]), as part of the U.S. military rodent surveillance and control program, was conducted from 2001 through 2005 at Yongsan Garrison, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Rodents were collected to determine the prevalence of rodent-borne diseases at a U.S. military installation in an urban environment. A total of 1,750 rodents representing three species was collected by using baited live traps (Tomahawk), glue boards, and poison baits (dead rodents observed but not assayed). The Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus (99.8%), accounted for nearly all of the rodents captured/observed. Only three roof rats, Rattus rattus (0.2%), and one house mouse, Mus musculus (<0.1%), were collected. R. norvegicus rats were the only rodents that were serologically positive for SEO virus (9.6%), scrub typhus (2.8%), murine typhus (3.8%), and leptospirosis (4.6%). One of six rodents that were positive for SEO virus by immunofluorescent antibody test was positive for SEO virus antigen by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Infection rates for SEO virus, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and leptospirosis varied annually. Rodents were captured from 228 (20.7%) of 1,104 total buildings in Yongsan Garrison. The Yongsan commissary had the highest annual infestation rate (22 rodents per year), followed by Commisky's Club (18 rodents per year). Annual infestation rates were high for food service facilities, which often store perishable food products outdoors for short periods of time, attracting rodent populations; refuse from these facilities provides harborage and food for rodents. The effect of rodent populations outside the boundary of Yongsan Garrison was not determined.
作为美军啮齿动物监测与控制项目的一部分，2001年至2005年期间，在韩国首尔龙山卫戍区开展了一项针对部分啮齿动物传播疾病（汉坦病毒[汉城病毒[SEO病毒]]、恙虫病[恙虫东方体]、鼠型斑疹伤寒[鼠伤寒立克次体]和钩端螺旋体病[问号钩端螺旋体]）的血清流行病学研究。收集啮齿动物以确定城市环境中一个美军军事设施内啮齿动物传播疾病的流行情况。通过使用诱饵活捕器（战斧式）、粘鼠板和毒饵（观察到死亡啮齿动物但未进行检测），共收集了代表三个物种的1750只啮齿动物。挪威鼠，褐家鼠（99.8%），几乎占了所有捕获/观察到的啮齿动物。仅收集到三只屋顶鼠，黑家鼠（0.2%）和一只家鼠，小家鼠（<0.1%）。褐家鼠是唯一对SEO病毒（9.6%）、恙虫病（2.8%）、鼠型斑疹伤寒（3.8%）和钩端螺旋体病（4.6%）血清学呈阳性的啮齿动物。通过免疫荧光抗体试验对SEO病毒呈阳性的六只啮齿动物中，有一只通过逆转录聚合酶链反应对SEO病毒抗原呈阳性。SEO病毒、恙虫病、鼠型斑疹伤寒和钩端螺旋体病的感染率每年都有所不同。从龙山卫戍区1104栋建筑中的228栋（20.7%）捕获了啮齿动物。龙山军粮店的年侵扰率最高（每年22只啮齿动物），其次是康米斯基俱乐部（每年18只啮齿动物）。食品服务设施的年侵扰率很高，这些设施经常在户外短时间储存易腐食品，吸引啮齿动物种群；这些设施产生的垃圾为啮齿动物提供了栖息场所和食物。未确定龙山卫戍区边界外啮齿动物种群的影响。
