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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

Mosquito Surveillance for West Nile Virus in Connecticut, 2000: Isolation from Culex pipiens, Cx. restuans, Cx. salinarius, and Culiseta melanura

Theodore G. AndreadisComments to Author , John F. Anderson, and Charles R. Vossbrinck
Author affiliations: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Table 1

Total number of mosquito species trapped and tested for West Nile virus in Connecticut, June 1-October 26, 2000

Mosquito species No. locations No. collected and tested No. pools
Aedes cinereus 104 9,195 641
Ae. vexans 125 8,310 622
Anopheles barberi 4 5 5
An. crucians 1 6 1
An. punctipennis 126 2,477 516
An. quadrimaculatus 35 98 53
An. walkeri 31 380 82
Coquillettidia perturbans 95 11,516 536
Culex pipiens 125 4,399 473
Cx. restuans 84 4,690 468
Cx. salinarius 100 6,673 466
Cx. territans 26 46 36
Culiseta melanura 108 8,105 625
Cs. morsitans 39 271 79
Ochlerotatus abserratus 57 1,605 136
Oc. atropalpus 1 1 1
Oc. aurifer 56 3,164 187
Oc. canadensis 101 29,172 1,141
Oc. cantator 79 3,514 322
Oc. communis 5 127 8
Oc. excrucians 59 921 146
Oc. grossbecki 1 1 1
Oc. japonicus 82 690 250
Oc. sollicitans 21 1,855 90
Oc. sticticus 63 9,054 327
Oc. stimulans 30 257 51
Oc. taeniorhynchus 13 5,978 153
Oc. triseriatus 113 1,711 418
Oc. trivittatus 119 19,260 761
Orthopodomyia signifera 5 5 5
Psorophora ferox 82 2,361 233
Uranotaenia sapphirina
99
1,352
252
Totals 137,199 9,085

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