Texas lifestyle limits transmission of dengue virus

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Jan, 2003 by Paul Reiter, Sarah Lathrop, Michel Bunning, Brad Biggerstaff, Daniel Singer, Tejpratap Tiwari, Laura Baber, Manuel Amador, Jaime Thirion, Jack Hayes, Calixto Seca, Jorge Mendez, Bernardo Ramirez, Jerome Robinson, Julie Rawlings, Vance Vorndam, Stephen Waterman, Duane Gubler, Gary Clark, Edward Hayes

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Paul Reiter, Visiting Scholar, Harvard School of Public Health, Building 1, Room 107, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA; Fax: 617-432-1796; e-mail: preiter@hsph.harvard.edu

Paul Reiter, * Sarah Lathrop, * Michel Bunning, * Brad Biggerstaff, * Daniel Singer, * Tejpratap Tiwari, * Laura Baber, ([dagger]) Manuel Amador, * Jaime Thirion, ([double dagger]) Jack Hayes, ([section]) Calixto Seca, ([paragraph]) Jorge Mendez, ([double dagger]) Bernardo Ramirez, (#) Jerome Robinson, ([dagger]) Julie Rawlings, ([paragraph]) Vance Vorndam, * Stephen Waterman, * Duane Gubler, * Gary Clark, * and Edward Hayes *

* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; ([dagger]) City of Laredo Health Department, Laredo, Texas, USA; ([double dagger]) Secretaria de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico; ([section]) University of Texas, Boerne, Texas, USA; ([paragraph]) Texas Department of Health, Laredo, Texas, USA; and (#) Secretaria de Salud de Tamaulipas, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Dr. Reiter is a research entomologist in the Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and current director of a CDC West Nile vires project at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. His interests include the physiology, behavior, and ecology of mosquitoes; the transmission dynamics and epidemiology of the diseases they transmit; and improved methods for their control. In recent years, he has taken a special interest in issues of climate change and vector-borne disease.