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This article is intended to serve as a reference source for specific information on the epidemiology of viruses of the California encephalitis group. Data are summarized from 159 references in the form of tables and maps. Included are human cases of infection in the United States, sources of virus isolations, results of serological surveys in man and both wild and domestic animals, of inoculation studies in animals, of arthropod infection and transmission studies. Data are presented from South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia as well as from the North American continent.
Accepted for publication May 20, 1972.
Address reprint requests to: Dr. William McD. Hammon, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Room A-432 Crabtree Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
* In part from a thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, as partial requirement for the Doctor of Public Health degree. These studies were supported in part by PHS Training Grant No. 5 T01 HS00052 from the National Center for Health Services Research and Development, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, in part by Research Grant No. 5 R22 AI0 2686 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and in part by Contract No. DADA-17-69-C-9048 from the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command.
Present address: Environmental Protection Agency, Pesticides Tolerance Division, Toxicology Branch, Room 3175, 12th and C Street, S.W., Washington, D. C. 20460.
Present address: Building No. 5, Room 447, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
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