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Detection of Infectious Virus from Field-collected Mosquitoes by Vero Cell Culture Assay
Published on: June 9, 2011
West Nile virus in overwintering Culex mosquitoes, New York City, 2000
R S Nasci1, H M Savage, D J White
1CDC-DVBID, PO Box 2087, Fort Collins, CO 80522, USA. rsn0@cdc.gov
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|October 5, 2001
Abstract:
After the 1999 West Nile (WN) encephalitis outbreak in New York, 2,300 overwintering adult mosquitoes were tested for WN virus by cell culture and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. WN viral RNA and live virus were found in pools of Culex mosquitoes. Persistence in overwintering Cx. pipiens may be important in the maintenance of WN virus in the northeastern United States.

