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Nature, nurture and evolution of intra-species variation in mosquito arbovirus transmission competenceWalter J Tabachnick
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, IFAS, 200 9th St SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 10:249-77. 2013..This information is needed to assess risk from mosquito-borne disease, predict new mosquito-arbovirus systems, and provide novel strategies to mitigate mosquito-borne arbovirus transmission...
Challenges in predicting climate and environmental effects on vector-borne disease episystems in a changing worldW J Tabachnick
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, IFAS, 200 9th Street, SE, Vero Beach, Florida, USA
J Exp Biol 213:946-54. 2010..The challenges will be explored using several arthropod-borne pathogen systems as illustration, and potential avenues to meet the challenges will be presented...
Laboratory containment practices for arthropod vectors of human and animal pathogensWalter J Tabachnick
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida IFAS, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA
Lab Anim (NY) 35:28-33. 2006..The author reviews current arthropod containment practices and discusses their importance from public health and ecological perspectives...
Environmental and biological factors influencing Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) vector competence for West Nile VirusStephanie L Richards
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida IFAS, Vero Beach, FL, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 83:126-34. 2010..Differences in the environmental (EIT and dose) and biological (mosquito age and colony) effects from previous studies of Cx. p. quinquefasciatus vector competence for St. Louis encephalitis virus are discussed...
Environmental and biological factors influencing Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) vector competence for Saint Louis encephalitis virusStephanie L Richards
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Vero Beach, Florida 32962, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:264-72. 2009....
Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature and virus exposure on vector competence of Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) for West Nile virusStephanie L Richards
University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, Florida 32962, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 7:629-36. 2007..This relationship is likely complex and dependent on diverse interactions between factors such as incubation temperature and viremia, which should also be assessed for field populations...
Influence of nonsystemic transmission on the epidemiology of insect borne arboviruses: a case study of vesicular stomatitis epidemiology in the western United StatesCynthia C Lord
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, IFAS, Vero Beach 32962, USA
J Med Entomol 39:417-26. 2002..The data needed to compare the two pathways and their relative roles in virus epidemiology are discussed...
Relationships between host viremia and vector susceptibility for arbovirusesCynthia C Lord
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida-IFAS, Vero Beach 32962, USA
J Med Entomol 43:623-30. 2006..Relying on assumptions with little support may result in erroneous conclusions about the importance of different hosts...
Reflections on the Anopheles gambiae genome sequence, transgenic mosquitoes and the prospect for controlling malaria and other vector borne diseasesWalter J Tabachnick
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, IFAS, 200 9th St, SE, Vero Beach, FL 32968, USA
J Med Entomol 40:597-606. 2003..Transgenic release approaches represent only one strategy that should be pursued. A balanced research program is required...
West Nile virus infection rates in Culex nigripalpus (Diptera: Culicidae) do not reflect transmission rates in FloridaC Roxanne Rutledge
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA
J Med Entomol 40:253-8. 2003..Mosquito transmission rates are reported in this study for the first time for a WN outbreak. This information is essential to determine risk of human and animal infection...
Effects of West Nile virus dose and extrinsic incubation temperature on temporal progression of vector competence in Culex pipiens quinquefasciatusSheri L Anderson
University of Florida, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory IFAS, 200 9th Street Southeast, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA
J Am Mosq Control Assoc 26:103-7. 2010..Dissemination rate, body titer, and leg titer were dependent on IP, indicating the need to investigate multiple time points in vector competence studies to elucidate critical events in infection and dissemination...
Infection of guinea pigs with vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus Transmitted by Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)Adalberto A Perez de Leon
Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, USDA ARS, P O Box 3965, Laramie, WY 82071 3965, USA
J Med Entomol 43:568-73. 2006..The role of C. sonorensis in the transmission of VSNJV is discussed...
Transmission of vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus to cattle by the biting midge Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)Adalberto A Perez de Leon
Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
J Med Entomol 43:323-9. 2006..The failure to observe clinical signs of vesicular stomatitis through transmission of VSNJV by C. sonorensis may explain widespread subclinical infections during vesicular stomatitis epidemics...
Genetics. A breakthrough for global public healthDave D Chadee
Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
Science 316:1703-4. 2007
