Toward the incrimination of epidemic vectors of eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus in Massachusetts: abundance of mosquito populations at epidemic foci.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

1999

Original Publication

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volume

15

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

479-492

Contributed by

American Mosquito Control Association

Notes

Author(s) - Moncayo AC.Edman JD.

 

Abstract

Putative epidemic/epizootic eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEE) vector populations were compared at 15 recent (1982-90) human and horse case sites in Bristol and Plymouth counties in southeastern Massachusetts. Carbon dioxide-baited American Biophysics Corporation light traps were used for trapping adult mosquitoes to estimate biting risk in these foci of known transmission. Population data suggest that Coquillettidia perturbans, Aedes canadensis, and Culex salinarius are more likely vectors of EEE in Massachusetts than Aedes vexans, Anopheles punctipennis, and Anopheles quadrimaculatus.

Notes

Author(s) - Moncayo AC.Edman JD.