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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research

West Nile Virus–infected Mosquitoes, Louisiana, 2002

Marvin S. Godsey*, Roger Nasci*, Harry M. Savage*, Stephen Aspen*, Raymond King*, Ann M. Powers*, Kristen Burkhalter*, Leah Colton*, Dawn Charnetzky*, Sarah Lasater*, Viki Taylor†, and Charles T. Palmisano†
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; †St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District, Slidell, Louisiana, USA

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Table 3

Population densities of selected mosquito species at West Nile virus (WNV) case-patient and non–case-patient residences*

No. of mosquitoes collected per trap night (LT/GT)†
Culex quinquefasciatus Cx. salinarius Aedes albopictus Coquillettidia perturbans
St. Tammany
A 1.7/21.7 1.6/0.05 1.8/1.2 0.2/0
B 0.5/3.7 1.5/0.1 0.9/1.7 0/0
C 0.3/17.4 2.6/0 1.5/1.0 0/0
D 0.6/18.1 1.0/0 1.6/2.8 0/0
E 3.7/44.1 5.4/0.06 2.2/3.0 0/0
F 1.0/19.4 5.0/0 2.8/2.1 0/0
I 1.3/15.7 3.2/0 2.4/2.9 0/0
J 2.3/39.3 6.7/0.3 2.3/0.3 0/0
K 1.5/12.2 1.0/0 9.8/11.2 0.2/0
g 4.4/59.6 6.7/0.07 4.1/3.6 0/0
l 6.5/105.0 0.5/0 4.5/35.5 0.5/0
m 7.0/142.8 0/0 0.8/0.3 0/0
Tangipahoa
A 0.02/0.4 6.4/1.0 0.7/1.9 17.7/1.6
B 3.2/15.1 8.0/1.2 5.2/8.5 16.2/0.3

*Capital letters denote confirmed WNV neuroinvasive disease and WNV fever case sites; italicized lower case letters denote non-WNV case sites.
†LT, light trap; GT, gravid trap; only night collections used for trap night calculations.

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