Mosquito and arbovirus activity during 1997-2002 in a wetland in northeastern Mississippi

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 495-501

  Cupp, E W ^a   Tennessen, K J ^b,c   Oldland, W K ^b   Hassan, H K ^d   Hill, G E ^a   Katholi, C R ^e   Unnasch, T R ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood meal identification; Culex erraticus; Culiseta melanura; Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus; Saint Louis encephalitis

Indexed keywords

AEDES VEXANS; ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES CRUCIANS; ANOPHELES QUADRIMACULATUS; ARBOVIRUS; ARDEA; ARDEA HERODIAS; AVES; COQUILLETTIDIA PERTURBANS; CULEX ERRATICUS; CULEX RESTUANS; CULEX SALINARIUS; CULISETA; CULISETA MELANURA; CYANOCITTA CRISTATA; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; EQUIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MIMUS; MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS; PSOROPHORA; PSOROPHORA FEROX; SAINT LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 2542560616     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-41.3.495     Document Type: Article

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