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. Andreadis
, John F. Anderson, and Charles R. Vossbrinck
, John F. Anderson, and Charles R. Vossbrinck
Table 2
West Nile virus isolation data from field-collected mosquitoes trapped in Connecticut, June 1 - October 26, 2000
| Location |
MFIRa |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Date collected | Pool size | County | Site | County | Site | Trap typeb |
| Culex restuans | 7/11 | 9 | Fairfield | Stamford-1 | 1.8 | 6.9 | G |
| 8/7 | 3 | Norwalk-1 | 32.2 | G,L | |||
| 8/7 | 7 | Norwalk-2 | 5.4 | G,L | |||
| 9/20 | 18 | Stamford-2 | 55.6 | G,L | |||
| C. pipiens | 8/30 | 1 | Fairfield | Greenwich | 1.3 | 29.4 | G |
| 9/11 | 44 | Stamford-3 | 17.2 | G | |||
| 9/20 | 50 | Stamford-2 | 15.9 | G,L | |||
| 9/12 | 4 | New Haven | Meriden | 1.4 | 41.7 | L | |
| 9/21 | 3 | Milford | 76.9 | G,L | |||
| C. salinarius | 9/18 | 5 | New Haven | Milford | 0.5 | 45.5 | L |
| 9/21 | 6 | Milford | 45.5 | L | |||
| Culiseta melanura | 9/19 | 39 | Fairfield | Fairfield | 0.8 | 9.2 | L |
| 9/20 | 50 | Shelton | 1.3 | L | |||
| 10/2 | 7 | Westport | 6.8 | L | |||
aMinimum field infection rate per 1,000 mosquitoes.
bG = gravid; L = light; G,L = combined.
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