| pathogen screening and bionomics of lutzomyia apache (diptera: psychodidae) in wyoming, usa. | phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of bacteria, parasites, and viruses. lutzomyia apache, a north american sand fly, was incriminated as a vector of vesicular stomatitis viruses (vsv) due to overlapping ranges of the sand fly and recent outbreaks of vsv. we report on the discovery of 2 populations of l. apache in wyoming from albany and fremont counties. we attempted to isolate vsv and phleboviruses from sand flies from albany county and screened select flies by polymerase chain reaction for ba ... | 2008 | 18939699 |