Bunyavirus isolations from mosquitoes in the western Canadian Arctic.

• Main Authors: McLean, D. M., Grass, P. N., Judd, B. D., Ligate, L. V., Peter, K. K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1977
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Mackenzie Valley; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129927; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18541

Strains of California encephalitis virus (snowshoe hare subtype) were isolated from 8 of 475 pools comprising 23 747 unengorged female mosquitoes of five species collected at three of six locations throughout the Mackenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories, Canada, from latitudes 60 to 69 degrees...