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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001


THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

Mosquito Surveillance and Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of West Nile Virus, New York State

Dennis J. White*Comments to Author , Laura D. Kramer*, P. Bryon Backenson*, Gary Lukacik*, Geraldine Johnson*, JoAnne Oliver*, John J. Howard*, Robert G. Means*, Millicent Eidson*, Ivan Gotham*, Varuni Kulasekera†, Scott Campbell‡, and the Arbovirus Research Laboratorythe Statewide West Nile Virus Response Teams
Author affiliations: *New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; †City of New York Department of Health, New York, New York, USA; ‡Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Yaphank, New York, USA

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Table 1

Local health department mosquito surveillance programs

Local health department No. of trap nights No. of mosquitoes submitted for virus testing No. of PCR-positive pools
Albany 203 2,305 0
Broome 81 235 0
Cattaraugus 176 1,320 0
Columbia 369 1,161 1
Cortland 47 88 0
Dutchess 1,439 8,319 0
Erie 45 512 0
Madison 58 2,310 0
Monroe 136 1,156 0
Nassau 1,771 25,543 7
Niagara 104 1,697 0
Oneida 726 2,173 0
Onondaga 566 15,599 0
Orange 1,188 17,091 4
Oswego 1,555 12,417 0
Putnam 1,270 10,200 0
Rockland 2,037 28,623 47
Suffolk 960 77,955 120
Ulster 435 8,234 0
Warren 19 423 0
Westchester 2,505 24,478 13
New York City 2,850a 75,837 171
Brooklyn 12
Bronx 6
Manhattan 17
Queens 5
Staten Island 131
Statewide 18,540 317,676 363

aEstimated.
PCR = polymerase chain reaction.

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1E.B. Kauffman, K.A. Bernard, G.D. Ebel, P-Y. Shi, S.A. Jones, A.P. Dupuis II, J. Maffei, K.A. Ngo, D.C. Nicholas, and D. Young.

2J. Miller, City of New York Department of Health; D. Ninivaggi, Suffolk County Department of Health Services; C. Hodgeman, G. Terrillion, Nassau County Health Department; A. Huang, P. Yang-Lewis, Westchester County Health Department; M. Anand, B. Hunderfund, Rockland County Health Department; M. Smith, Orange County Health Department; J. Storm, S. Capowski, Dutchess County Health Department; D. Palen, R. Krom, G. Myers, Ulster County Health Department; S. Lukowski, Albany County Health Department; J. Zukowski, Columbia County Health Department; R. Burdick, Onondaga County Health Department; and J. Mysen, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

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