| arbovirus studies in the guajira region of venezuela: activities of eastern equine encephalitis and venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses during an interepizootic period. | repeated outbreaks of venezuelan equine encephalitis (vee) in humans and equines in the guajira region of venezuela suggested a sylvatic focus of an epizootic subtype of vee virus. a surveillance system was established, and virus isolations were attempted from 67,760 mosquitoes as well as sentinel hamsters. sixteen isolates of eastern equine encephalitis (eee) and a strain of itaqui virus were recovered from mosquitoes, and 60 isolates of eee, two of vee, and two of itaqui viruses were recovered ... | 1984 | 6148023 |