West nile virus surveillance: A simple method for verifying the integrity of RNA in mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) pools

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 731-735

  Hoffmann, Peter R ^a   Woodrow, Robert J ^b   Calimlim, Precilia S ^a   Sciulli, Rebecca ^c   Effler, Paul V ^c   Miyamoto, Vernon ^c   Imrie, Allison ^a   Yanagihara, Richard ^a   Nerurkar, Vivek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Arbovirus; Mosquito; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; CULEX; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 3342916664     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-41.4.731     Document Type: Article

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