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Isolations of a California Group Arbovirus from Florida Mosquitoes^*

A. L. Lewis, W. McD. Hammon, G. E. Sather, D. J. Taylor^|| AND J. O. Bond^¶

Recoveries of virus were made from 8 of 234 pools of Aedes infirmatus mosquitoes collected in the Tampa Bay region of Florida during 1963. A prototype of these, TB3-1, was shown to be closely related, if not identical, to trivittatus virus belonging in the California group of arthropod-borne viruses. The 7 remaining isolates were similarly characterized.

A. infirmatus mosquitoes were present in every month of the year, although their abundance markedly increased in the Spring after heavy rainfall. Although the species is known to bite man readily, there was minimal evidence of transmission of this California group arbovirus to man in the Tampa Bay area of Florida during 1963.

^* These studies were supported by Public Health Service Research Grant AI-05504 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to the Florida State Board of Health.

Studies at the University of Pittsburgh were conducted under the sponsorship of The Commission on Viral Infections, Armed Forces Epidemiology Board, and were supported in part by the Research and Development Division, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, under Contract Number DA-49-193-MD-2042, and in part by Public Health Service Research Grant AI-02686 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Virologist, Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Tampa, Florida.

Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Entomologist, Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Tampa, Florida.

^¶ Director, Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Tampa, Florida.