Toward the incrimination of epidemic vectors of eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus in Massachusetts: Abundance of mosquito populations at epidemic foci
Ac. Moncayo et Jd. Edman, Toward the incrimination of epidemic vectors of eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus in Massachusetts: Abundance of mosquito populations at epidemic foci, J AM MOSQ C, 15(4), 1999, pp. 479-492
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology/Pest Control
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION
Putative epidemic/epizootic eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEE) ve
ctor populations were compared at 15 recent (1982-90) human and horse case
sites in Bristol and Plymouth counties in southeastern Massachusetts. Carbo
n dioxide-baited American Biophysics Corporation light traps were used for
trapping adult mosquitoes to estimate biting risk in these foci of known tr
ansmission. Population data suggest that Coquillettidia perturbans, Aedes c
anadensis, and Culex salinarius are more likely vectors of EEE in Massachus
etts than Aedes vexans, Anopheles punctipennis, and Anopheles quadrimaculat
us.