West Nile virus in host-seeking mosquitoes within a residential neighborhood in Grand Forks, North Dakota

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 373-382

  Bell, Jeffrey A ^a   Mickelson, Nathan J ^a   Vaughan, Jefferson A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex tarsali; Mosquito Magnet ; North Dakota; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; VecTest ; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFECTION RATE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

AEDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CULEX; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; NORTH DAKOTA; OCHLEROTATUS; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AEDES VEXANS; CULEX TARSALIS; MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 32044446995     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2005.5.373     Document Type: Article

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