A method to increase efficiency in testing pooled field-collected mosquitoes

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 311-314

  Chisenhall, Daniel M ^a,b   Vitek, Christopher J ^a   Richards, Stephanie L ^a   Mores, Christopher N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus testing; Mosquito pool; Quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Surveillance; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FEMALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RNA, VIRAL; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 51449084234     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/5671.1     Document Type: Article

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