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

West Nile Virus Isolates from Mosquitoes in New York and New Jersey, 1999

Roger S. Nasci*Comments to Author , Dennis J. White†, Helen Stirling‡, JoAnne Oliver†, Thomas J. Daniels§, Richard C. Falco§, Scott Campbell¶, Wayne J. Crans#, Harry M. Savage*, Robert S. Lanciotti*, Chester G. Moore*, Marvin S. Godsey*, Kristy L. Gottfried*, and Carl J. Mitchell*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; †New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; ‡New York City Department of Health, New York City, New York, USA; §Louis Calder Center, Fordham University, Armonk, New York, USA; ¶Suffolk County Department of Health, Yaphank, New York, USA; #Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

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Table 2

Mosquito species tested for West Nile virus, New York and New Jersey, 1999

Collection Dates Number of specimens tested
New York counties (borough) From Through Culex species Other species
Bronxa 9/2/99 10/26/99 166 4,679
Kings (Brooklyn)a 9/11/99 10/26/99 122 24
New York (Manhattan) 9/11/99 10/26/99 1,344 93
Queensa 9/10/99 10/26/99 6,245 156
Richmond (Staten Island) 10/2/99 10/26/99 18 38
Nassaua 8/19/99 10/22/99 1,301 846
Orange 9/13/99 9/13/99 80 16
Rockland 9/13/99 10/5/99 171 1,877
Suffolka 6/8/99 10/20/99 6,849 1,217
Westchestera 9/8/99 10/19/99 334 1,206
New Jersey counties
Bergen 9/22/99 10/20/99 48 328
Burlingtonb 10/4/99 10/26/99 0 234
Camdenb 10/4/99 10/25/99 0 53
Cape Mayb 9/15/99 10/30/99 0 90
Essex 9/24/99 10/12/99 18 521
Hudsona 9/9/99 10/20/99 1,281 3,255
Middlesex 9/24/99 9/30/99 9 25
Oceanb 9/29/99 9/29/99 0 3
Salemb 9/29/99 10/28/99 0 142
Warren 10/28/99 10/28/99 7 3

aCounties in which West Nile virus-infected Culex species mosquitoes were collected.
bOther species tested are primarily Culiseta melanura collected as part of New Jersey's long-term eastern equine encephalitis surveillance program.

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