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

Widespread West Nile Virus Activity, Eastern United States, 2000

Anthony A. Marfin*Comments to Author , Lyle R. Petersen*, Millicent Eidson†, James Miller‡, James Hadler§, Cheryl Farello¶, Barbara Werner#, Grant L. Campbell*, Marcelle Layton‡, Perry Smith†, Edward Bresnitz¶, Matthew Cartter§, Joseph Scaletta**, Godwin Obiri††, Michel Bunning‡‡, Robert C. Craven*, John T. Roehrig*, Kathleen G. Julian*, Steven R. Hinten*, Duane J. Gubler*, and the ArboNET Cooperative Surveillance Group
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; §Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; ¶New Jersey Department of Health and Social Services, Trenton, New Jersey, USA; #Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; **Maryland Department of Health and Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ††Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡‡Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, Department of Defense, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA

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Table 3

Number of West Nile (WN) virus-infected mosquito pools reported to ArboNET in 2000, by species

Method to identify WN virus in >1 pool
Species No. of pools RT-PCRa/ TaqMan Virus culture
Culex pipiens/restuans 226 -- --
Cx. pipiens 146 Yes Yes
Cx. salinarius 50 Yes Yes
Cx. restuans 12 Yes Yes
Unspecified Culex spp. 26 -- --
Aedes vexans 17 Yes Yes
Ae. albopictus 1 Yes No
Unspecified Aedes spp. 1 -- --
Ochleratatus japonicus 9 Yes Yes
Oc. triseriatus 9 Yes Yes
Oc. trivittatus 8 Yes Yes
Oc. atropalpus 1 Yes No
Oc. canadensis 1 Yes Yes
Oc. cantator 1 Yes Yes
Anopheles punctipennis 1 Yes No
Culiseta melanura 3 Yes Yes
Psorophora ferox 1 Yes Yes

aRT-PCR= reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

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1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Tammie Hilger, John E. Jones, Jennifer A. Lehman, Kimlea Medlin, Tim Morris, Mindy J. Perilla, Suzanne Sutliff, David Withum; New Jersey: Faye Sorhage, Christina Tan; Maine: Geoff Beckett, Kathleen Gensheimer; New Hampshire: Jesse Greenblatt, Jose Montero; Vermont: Peter Galbraith, Patsy Tassler; Massachusetts: Alfred DeMaria, Bela Matyas, Ralph Timperi; Rhode Island: Utpala Bandy, Tara Breslosky; Connecticut: Theodore Andreadis, Matthew Cartter, Tara McCarthy,; New York (state): Bryon Backenson, Yoichiro Hagiwara, Laura Kramer, Dale Morse, Barbara Wallace, Dennis White, Amy Willsey, Susan Wong; New York City: Bryan Cherry, Annie Fine, Jackie Kellachan, Varuni Kulakasera, Iqbal Poshni; Pennsylvania: James Rankin; Delaware: Leroy Hathcock, Dave Wolfe; Maryland: Jeffrey Roche; Virginia: Suzanne Jenkins; Washington, D.C.: Martin Levy; North Carolina: J. Newton MacCormack; South Carolina: Jerry Gibson; Georgia: Paul Blake, Stacey Kramer, Susan Lance-Parker; Florida: Lisa Conti, Richard S. Hopkins, Robin Oliveri; Alabama: J.P. Lofgren, Charles H. Woernle; Mississippi: Mary Currier, Sally Slavinski; Louisiana: Karen Kelso; and Texas: Julie Rawlings.

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