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

West Nile Virus Infection in Mosquitoes, Birds, Horses, and Humans, Staten Island, New York, 2000

Varuni L. Kulasekera*Comments to Author , Laura Kramer†, Roger S. Nasci‡, Farzad Mostashari§, Bryan Cherry*, Susan C. Trock¶, Carla Glaser*, and James R. Miller*
Author affiliations: *New York City Department of Health, New York, New York, USA; †New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; §OutbreakDetect Inc., New York, New York, USA; ¶Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Albany, New York, USA

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Table

Adult mosquitoes collected and tested from New York City (NYC), as of Decenber 2000a

No. of mosquitoes tested
 No. of positive pools
Genus Sp. Staten Island Other boroughs All NYC Staten Island Other boroughs All NYC
Aedes & Ochlerotatus species 351 1,284 1,635 1 1
Aedes albopictus 90 90
vexans 2,497 3,215 5,712 2 2 4
Anopheles crucians 11 2 13
punctipennis 47 3 50 1 1
quadrimaculatus 44 44
species 16 37 53
Coquillettidia perturbans 35 3,010 3,045
species 6 6
Culex erraticus 4 4
pipiens 4,820 15,231 20,051 55 19 74
pipiens/restuans 2,554 11,190 13,744 24 9 33
restuans 439 2,480 2,919
salinarius 10,057 7,687 17,744 28 4 32
territans 28 45 73
species 2,242 3,502 5,744 16 4 20
Ochlerotatus canadensis 21 277 298
cantator 14 97 111 1 1
excrucians 2 2
intrudens 21 21
japonicus 2 2
sollicitans 33 1,699 1,732
taeniorhynchus 1 118 119
triseriatus 592 180 772 3 3
trivittatus 193 784 977
Psorophora ferox 39 19 58 1 1
columbiae
species 1 1
Uranotaenia sapphirina 28 28
Unidentified, damaged
64
 64
Total 24,074 51,044 75,106 131 39 170

a Pools were collected by the New York City Department of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Army.

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