Review of studies: Degenhardt, L et al, 2006, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 51, 556-65; Recent skunk study: Di Forti, M et al, 2009, British Journal of Psychiatry, 195, 488-91.
A total of 330 raccoon samples (192 males and 138 females) and 345 striped skunk samples (195 males and 150 females) were retained for this study.
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Although >1 skunk may have been exposed to a single rabid bat, it is highly unlikely that each skunk was exposed to the same bat or that multiple bat-skunk exposures occurred.
AMDV was detected by PCR in three sick striped skunks [ 10, 13], and microscopic lesions indicative of AMDV infection were found in one of 177 skunk carcasses tested [ 20], implying that skunks can be infected and develop clinical signs of the disease.
Incidental findings of C. muris, C. andersoni, C. suis, C. hominis monkey genotype, C. parvum mouse genotype, and Cryptosporidium cervine (W4), chipmunk I (W17), skunk, and horse genotypes have also been reported in humans (4 ).
At the SSU rRNA and HSP70 genes, sequence analysis confirmed that W971, W6863, and W16103 were skunk, horse, and rabbit genotypes, respectively (Table).
At lease 50 skunks live on Hunter's & Twin Islands.
They supply comes at present from 60 skunks held captive on an isolated farn near Stroudsburg, Penn.
