John F Anderson, Goudarz Molaei, Durland Fish, Philip M Armstrong, Noelle Khalil, Samuel Brudner, Michael J Misencik, Angela Bransfield, Michael Olson, Theodore G Andreadis
Background: West Nile virus (WNV), Everglades virus (EVEV), and five species of Orthobunyavirus were isolated from mosquitoes collected in the Everglades in 2016-2017. Prior studies of blood meals of mosquitoes in southern Florida have related findings to acquisition and transmission of EVEV, St. Louis encephalitis virus, and WNV, but not the Orthobunyavirus viruses associated with the subgenus Melanoconion of the genus Culex . Materials and Methods: In the present study, blood-fed mosquitoes were collected in the Everglades in 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2022, and from an industrial site in Naples, FL in 2017...
April 22, 2024: Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases