| avian hosts for west nile virus in st. tammany parish, louisiana, 2002. | west nile virus (wnv) infections in free-ranging birds were studied in slidell, st. tammany parish, louisiana, after a human encephalitis outbreak peaked there in july 2002. seroprevalence in resident, free-ranging wild birds in one suburban site was 25% and 24% in august and october, respectively, indicating that most transmission had ceased by early august. mortality rates, seroprevalence rates, host competence, and crude population estimates were used in mathematical models to predict actual ... | 2005 | 16354808 |
| west nile virus surveillance in east baton rouge parish, louisiana. | west nile virus (wnv) was detected for the first time in louisiana in the fall of 2001. surveillance data collected from east baton rouge parish in 2002 were examined to establish baseline data on wnv activity, to support the current design of disease surveillance programs, and to target vector control efforts in the parish. the first indications of wnv activity were from a dead northern cardinal collected in february and from a live male cardinal sampled on 14 march. in mosquito pools, wnv was ... | 2007 | 17536365 |
| host feeding patterns of culex mosquitoes (diptera: culicidae) in east baton rouge parish, louisiana. | host feeding patterns were examined for four species of culex mosquitoes collected from 18 sites in or adjacent to east baton rouge parish, la, from november 2002 to october 2004. host dna from 37 bloodfed culex coronator dyar and knab, 67 bloodfed cx. salinarius coquillett, 112 bloodfed cx. nigripalpus theobald, and 684 bloodfed cx. quinquefasciatus say were identified. the percentages of bloodmeals containing mammalian dna were 94.6% for cx. coronator, 82.1% for cx. salinarius, 66.1% for cx. n ... | 2010 | 20380306 |
| the culex pipiens complex in the mississippi river basin: identification, distribution, and bloodmeal hosts. | members of the culex pipiens complex are the primary vectors of st. louis encephalitis virus and west nile virus in the mississippi river basin (mrb). the cx. pipiens complex in the mrb is composed of 4 taxa: cx. p. pipiens form pipiens, cx. p. quinquefasciatus, hybrids between cx. p. pipiens f. pipiens and cx. p. quinquefasciatus, and cx. p. pipiens form molestus. three studies on bloodmeal hosts with large sample sizes have been conducted on members of the cx. pipiens complex in the mrb includ ... | 2012 | 23401948 |