| developing global climate anomalies suggest potential disease risks for 2006-2007. | el niño/southern oscillation (enso) related climate anomalies have been shown to have an impact on infectious disease outbreaks. the climate prediction center of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa/cpc) has recently issued an unscheduled el niño advisory, indicating that warmer than normal sea surface temperatures across the equatorial eastern pacific may have pronounced impacts on global tropical precipitation patterns extending into the northern hemisphere particularly ov ... | 2006 | 17194307 |
| use of scented sugar bait stations to track mosquito-borne arbovirus transmission in california. | laboratory and field research was conducted to determine if culex tarsalis coquillett expectorated west nile virus (wnv) during sugar feeding and if a lure or bait station could be developed to exploit this behavior for wnv surveillance. experimentally infected cx. tarsalis repeatedly expectorated wnv onto filter paper strips and into vials with wicks containing sucrose that was readily detectable by a quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay. few females (33%, n = 27) ... | 2012 | 23270177 |
| la crosse virus field detection and vector competence of culex mosquitoes. | la crosse virus (lacv), a leading cause of arboviral pediatric encephalitis in the united states, is emerging in appalachia. here, we report field and laboratory evidence that suggest lacv may be using culex mosquitoes as additional vectors in this region. this bunyavirus was detected by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in two pools of culex mosquitoes in southwestern virginia and in six pools in west virginia. to assess vector competence, we offered lacv blood meals to field-coll ... | 2015 | 26175029 |