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genus Neotoma

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Noun1.genus Neotoma - packrats
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
Cricetidae, family Cricetidae - mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, trade rat, pack rat, packrat - any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
dusky-footed woodrat, Neotoma fuscipes - host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California
eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana - large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States


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The broad geographic association of WWAV with the rodent genus Neotoma suggests that WWAV is the arenavirus associated with dusky-footed woodrats in the Santa Ana Mountains.
The geographic range of the genus Neotoma extends from western Canada south to Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and includes 33 states in the contiguous United States and 26 of the 32 states in Mexico (21).
More than one arenavirus may be occurring in rats of the genus Neotoma and in deer mice and other rodents in southeastern Colorado.
 
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