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Detection of Infectious Virus from Field-collected Mosquitoes by Vero Cell Culture Assay
Published on: June 9, 2011
Enhancing West Nile virus surveillance, United States
John S Brownstein1, Thoedore R Holford, Durland Fish
1Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 23, 2004
Abstract:
We provide a method for constructing a county-level West Nile virus risk map to serve as an early warning system for human cases. We also demonstrate that mosquito surveillance is a more accurate predictor of human risk than monitoring dead and infected wild birds.

