TY - JOUR AU - Nasci, Roger AU - Savage, Harry AU - White, Dennis AU - Miller, James AU - Cropp, Bruce AU - Godsey, Marvin AU - Kerst, Amy AU - Bennett, Paul AU - Gottfried, Kristy AU - Lanciotti, Robert T1 - West Nile Virus in Overwintering Culex Mosquitoes, New York City, 2000 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 742 SN - 1080-6059 AB - After the 1999 West Nile (WN) encephalitis outbreak in New York, 2,300 overwintering adult mosquitoes were tested for WN virus by cell culture and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. WN viral RNA and live virus were found in pools of Culex mosquitoes. Persistence in overwintering Cx. pipiens may be important in the maintenance of WN virus in the northeastern United States. KW - Arbovirus KW - Flavivirus KW - West Nile virus KW - Culex pipiens KW - overwinter KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0704.017426 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/4/01-7426_article ER - End of Reference