Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Research
Postepizootic Persistence of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus, Venezuela
Juan-Carlos Navarro*, Gladys Medina†, Clovis Vasquez‡, Lark L. Coffey§, Eryu Wang§, Alexander Suárez*‡, Hernán Biord#, Marlene Salas¶, and Scott C. Weaver§
Table 4
Mosquitoes collected in the regions affected by the 2000 and 2003 Venezuelan equine encephalitis outbreaks
| Species | Study site |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Obispos | Arismendi | ||
| Culex (Melanoconion) dunni | 133 | 924 | 25 | 1,082 |
| Cx. (Mel.) spissipes | 26 | 15 | 41 | |
| Cx. (Mel.) pedroi* | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cx. (Mel.) theobaldi | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cx. (Mel.) ocossa* | 13 | 6 | 19 | |
| Cx. (Mel.) panocossa* | 5 | 5 | ||
| Cx. (Mel.) sp. Mel Section | 24 | 120 | 144 | |
| Cx. (Cux.) spp. | 800 | 132 | 45 | 977 |
| Psorophora albipes | 39 | 18 | 57 | |
| Ps. ferox | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Ps. lineata | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ps. cingulata | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| Aedes fulvus† | 2 | 2 | ||
| Ae. scapularis† | 6 | 44 | 9 | 59 |
| Uranotaenia calosomata | 17 | 5 | 22 | |
| Trichoprosopon digitatum | 12 | 1 | 13 | |
| Trichoprosopon sp. | 1 | 1 | ||
| Wyeomyia (Phoniomyia) sp. | 2 | 2 | ||
| Uranotaenia geometrica | 2 | 2 | ||
| Coquillettidia arribalzagae | 6 | 70 | 76 | |
| C. nigricans | 5 | 5 | ||
| C. juxtamansonia | 7 | 7 | ||
| Mansonia titillans | 10 | 169 | 179 | |
| Limatus asulleptus | 4 | 4 | ||
| Aedomyia squamipennis | 3 | 3 | ||
| Anopheles sp. | 2 | 2 | ||
*Proven enzootic vectors of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.
†Suspected bridge vectors.
