West Nile Virus Infection Rates in Culex nigripalpus (Diptera: Culicidae) Do Not Reflect Transmission Rates in Florida
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 40 (3) , 253-258
- https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-40.3.253
Abstract
We describe the first documented field transmission of West Nile (WN) virus by a North American mosquito. WN was first detected in northern Florida iKeywords
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