| trajectory analysis of winds and vesicular stomatitis in north america, 1982-5. | outbreaks of vesicular stomatitis, serotype new jersey, during epidemics in the united states and northern mexico, 1982-5, were examined by backward trajectories of winds to investigate spread and possible sources. the outbreaks selected for analysis did not involve introduction of disease by infected animals. the findings indicate that wind could have been responsible for carrying infection from northern mexico to arizona and new mexico and thence to colorado and utah and on to wyoming, idaho a ... | 1990 | 2157606 |
| emergence and re-emergence of vesicular stomatitis in the united states. | vesicular stomatitis (vs) is an important disease of cattle, horses and pigs. the causal agent is an arbovirus; vesicular stomatitis virus (vsv) of which two distinct serotypes new jersey (nj) and indiana (in) have been described. the clinical signs in cattle and pigs are undistinguishable from foot-and-mouth disease (fmd), one of the most devastating viral infections of livestock. vsv is the most important cause of vesicular disease in fmd-free countries in the americas, causing thousands of ou ... | 2002 | 12034487 |
| landscape associations of the sand fly, lutzomyia (heleocyrtomyia) apache (diptera: psychodidae), in the southwestern united states: a geographic information system analysis. | landscape associations of the sand fly, lutzomyia apache, young and perkins, in the southwestern u.s. were investigated by light/suction trap sampling and the development of a gis-generated distribution map. in the mid-rio grande river valley, n.m., female and male l. apache were captured in updraft light/suction traps set in desert shrubland, irrigation levee, and bosque vegetation communities. small numbers of flies were captured, but the presence of males and females in spatially separate and ... | 2004 | 15707279 |