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1Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida-IFAS, Vero Beach 32962, USA.
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
|November 18, 2000
Abstract:
An experiment to determine if wild Culex nigripalpus preferentially enter lard-can traps baited with chickens or bobwhite quail was conducted. A strong preference for the chicken-baited trap was observed. Further development of transmission models for St. Louis encephalitis virus in southern Florida should consider increased biting rates on sentinel chickens and the consequences for the interpretation of sentinel seroconversion data.

