Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Jan 1993
Failure to Isolate Viruses of the Genus Phlebovirus from Lutzomyia shannoni Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Ossabaw Island, Georgia
Failure to Isolate Viruses of the Genus Phlebovirus from Lutzomyia shannoni Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Ossabaw Island, Georgia
Page Range: 25 – 28
Lutzomyia shannoni Dyar were collected on Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, GA, and tested for infection with viruses of the genus Phlebovirus. No virus isolates were obtained from 5,053 sand flies collected in 1990 and 1991. These results suggest that phleboviruses are absent from this population of sand flies.
Keywords: Diptera; sand fly;
Lutzomyia shannoni
;
Phlebovirus
; virus
Copyright: © 1993 Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.
Accepted: 16 Sept 1992