Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015
Dispatch
Culex torrentium Mosquito Role as Major Enzootic Vector Defined by Rate of Sindbis Virus Infection, Sweden, 2009
Jenny C. Hesson
, Jenny Verner-Carlsson, Anders Larsson, Raija Ahmed, Åke Lundkvist, and Jan O. Lundström
, Jenny Verner-Carlsson, Anders Larsson, Raija Ahmed, Åke Lundkvist, and Jan O. Lundström
Table 1
Ornithophilic Culex and Culiseta spp. mosquitoes collected for the detection of Sindbis virus, central Sweden, 2009
| Mosquito species | No. collected (no. from which Sindbis virus isolated) |
Total | Infection estimates | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14 | Jul 28 and 29 | Aug 11 | Aug 27 | Sep 8 | ||||||
| Culex spp. | ||||||||||
| Cx. torrentium | 45 | 183 (6) | 62 (4) | 9 (1) | 2 | 301(11) | 36.5† | |||
| Cx. pipiens | 38 | 134 (2) | 175 (1) | 13 | 7 | 367 (3) | 8.2† | |||
| Total |
83 |
317 (8) |
237 (5) |
22 (1) |
9 |
668(14) |
21.0† |
|||
| Culiseta sp. | ||||||||||
| Cs. morsitans |
8 |
35 |
93 |
111 (1) |
43 (1) |
290 (2) |
6.9‡ |
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| Total | 91 | 352 (8) | 330 (5) | 133 (2) | 52 (1) | 958 (16) | NA | |||
*NA, not applicable.
†Infection rate/1,000 mosquitoes.
‡Minimum field infection rate/1,000 mosquitoes.
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