A two-year evaluation of elevated canopy trapping for Culex mosquitoes and west nile virus in an operational surveillance program in the northeastern United States

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-148

  Andreadis, Theodore G ^a   Armstrong, Philip M ^a  

^a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens; Culex restuans; Culex salinarius; Elevation; Gravid trap; Light trap; Surveillance; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TIME; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; NEW ENGLAND; TIME FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX RESTUANS; CULEX SALINARIUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 34548014087     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/8756-971X(2007)23[137:ATEOEC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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