Journal of Medical Entomology (1997) 34, 156-159

Scott A. Ritchie, Ian D. Fanning, Debbie A. Phillips, Harry A. Standfast, Darryl McGinn and Brian H. Kay (1997)
Ross River virus in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) during the 1994 epidemic around Brisbane, Australia
Journal of Medical Entomology 34 (2), 156-159
Abstract: During the summer 1994 outbreak of epidemic of polyarthritis in suburban Brisbane, 29,931 adult female mosquitoes were collected by octenol-CO₂ light traps and tested for virus by species in pools of ~20 using an in situ enzyme-linked immunoassay. Overall, 63 isolations of Ross River (RR) virus were made from 7 different mosquito species, including 23 from freshwater-breeding Culex annulirostris Skuse, 13 from peridomestic Aedes notoscriptus (Skuse), 4 from Aedes procax (Skuse), 12 from the brackish water-breeding Aedes funereus (Theobald), 9 from saltmarsh Aedes vigilax (Skuse), and 1 each from Culex sitiens Wiedemann and Aedes alternans (Westwood). The RR virus minimum infection rate in mosquitoes ranged from 1.6 to 2:5/1,000 from March to June 1994. This study implicates fresh-water and brackish water mosquitoes as important suburban vectors of RR virus and indicates the need for refocusing mosquito control priorities.
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Database assignments for author(s): Scott A. Ritchie, Brian H. Kay

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Culex annulirostris
	Aedes notoscriptus
	Aedes procax
	Verrallina funerea
	Aedes vigilax
	Aedes alternans
	Culex sitiens