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Volume 7, Number 5—October 2001
Research

First Isolation of La Crosse Virus from Naturally Infected Aedes albopictus

Reid R. Gerhardt*, Kristy L. Gottfried†Comments to Author , Charles S. Apperson‡, Brent S. Davis†, Paul C. Erwin§, A. Brent Smith*, Nicholas A. Panella†, Eugene E. Powell‡, and Roger S. Nasci†
Author affiliations: *University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; ‡North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; §State of Tennessee Department of Health, East Tennessee Region, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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Numbers of Aedes albopictus and Ochlerotatus triseriatus adults reared from eggs and pooled specimens tested for La Crosse virus from mosquitoes collected at La Crosse encephalitis case sites in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, 1999
Ae. albopictus
 Oc. triseriatus
County-case site Collection dates No. individuals No. pools No. individuals No. pools
Tennessee
Knox-Karns 5/10-9/18 3,999 131 1,838 72
Knox-Oak Ridge Hwy 8/10-9/17 464 16 10 2
Anderson-Clintona 6/6-9/13 2,733 92a 649 40
Anderson-Holt Road 8/10-9/17 309 11 36 2
Blount-Townsend 8/23-9/15 252 8 0 0
Cumberland-Crab Orchard 8/13-9/6 427 15 0 0
Total 8,184 181 2,533 116
North Carolina
Buncombe-site 9b 5/20-10/4 1,427 86 1,944 87

aVirus isolated from one pool of Ae. albopictus (14 females).
bVirus isolated from one pool of Ae. albopictus (44 females) and three pools of Oc. triseriatus (4, 6, and 50 males).

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