Abstract From 1937 until 1999, West Nile virus (WNV) garnered scant medical attention as
the cause of febrile illness and sporadic encephalitis in parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe …

Importance Since its introduction in North America in 1999, West Nile virus has produced the
3 largest arboviral neuroinvasive disease outbreaks ever recorded in the United States …

The authors report on the development and application of a rapid TaqMan assay for the
detection of West Nile (WN) virus in a variety of human clinical specimens and field-collected …

In October 1995, epidemic “hemorrhagic fever,” without jaundice or renal manifestations was
reported in rural Nicaragua following heavy flooding; 2259 residents were evaluated for …

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 …

The average wing length of Aedes aegypti females collected as pupae was 2.47 mm, which
was significantly smaller than the 2.64 mm average wing length of the host-seeking females …

La Crosse (LAC) virus, a California serogroup bunyavirus, is the leading cause of pediatric
arboviral encephalitis in the United States and an emerging disease in Tennessee, West …

West Nile virus is a mosquito borne flavivirus endemic over a large geographic area
including Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Although the virus generally causes a mild, self …

West Nile (WN) virus transmission in the United States during 2000 was most intense on
Staten Island, New York, where 10 neurologic illnesses among humans and 2 among …

The relationship between dry weight at adult emergence and wing length cubed was
compared by regression analysis for three mosquito species reared in the laboratory and …