Arbovirus surveillance, reference and research, 1984

Arbovirus reagents: Production and distribution; production and distribution of monoclonal reagents; evaluation of reagents; cell culture production and maintenance; quality control tests for the detection of mycoplasma and bacteria.

Catalogue of arthropod-borne and select vertebrate viruses of the world: Distribution of catalogue materials; abstracts and current information; registration of new viruses; antigenic grouping; taxonomic status of registered viruses.

Diagnostic and W.H.O. reference center activities: Virus isolation attempts; serologic tests of persons vaccinated against arboviruses; diagnostic serology; identification and characterization of virus isolates; reagent evaluation; absence of effect of chloroquine administration on seroconversion to yellow fever vaccine; application of ELISA techniques.

Arbovirus epidemic investigations and surveillance activities: Surveillance of human arboviral infections of the central nervous system, United States, 1984; field surveillance activities; epidemic-epizzotic studies; Aedes aegypti distribution and abundance in the southeastern U.S.

Arbovirus immunochemistry: Alphavirus immunochemistry; flavivirus immunochemistry.

St. Louis encephalitis: Ecological studies: Revised CDC gravid mosquito trap; gravid trap and egg raft collections, Memphis, Tennessee, 1984; summary of gravid trap and resting site collections in Memphis; simultaneous surveillance of SLE vectors by three methods; field trials of ULV resmethrin for control of adult Culex mosquitoes in urban Memphis, Tennessee, 1984; the rapid return to pre-treatment levels.

Experimental studies of arbovirus vectors: Chronological age determination in mosquitoes by using daily growth bands on internal apodemes; use of male genitalia for differentiation of Culex species; effects of larval nutrition on the vector competence of Aedes aegypti for Ross River virus; experimental transmission of rocio virus by Psorophora ferox from the epidemic zone in Brazil; trials with portable screen rooms modified for use as animal-baited net traps for mosquito collection; the effect of successive lytic passage of yellow fever virus on infection and transmission rates in orally exposed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes; detection of yellow fever virus in orally infected individual Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by enzyme immunoassay.

Arbovirus studies in Argentina: Arbovirus isolations from Argentina; the use of an animal-baited net trap for collecting mosquitoes during western equine encephalitis investigations in Argentina; studies of the mosquito fauna of Argentina; serological and virological studies.

Japanese encephalitis vaccine.

Vesicular stomatitis VS virus: Epizootic investigations; evaluation of MAC-Elisa in bovines and equines; followup studies, 1982 VS outbreak; animal pathogenesis; antibody surveys in wildlife and small mammal population; studies of Phlebotomine sand flies from the Colorado Front Range.

Orbivirus studies: Colorado tick fever in humans, 1984; use of pressurized sprays of permethrin for protection against Dermacentor andersoni ticks in Colorado.

Head lice and scabies consultation.

Publications: Published in 1984; submitted or in press.

Trainees.

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