Yellow fever virus infectivity for Bolivian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Sept, 2004 by John-Paul Mutebi, Alberto Gianella, Amelia Travassos da Rosa, Robert B. Tesh, Alan D. T. Barrett, Stephen Higgs

Address for correspondence: Stephen Higgs. Department of Pathology, and Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Texas 77555-(1609, USA; fax: 409-747-2437; email: sthiggs@utmb.edu

John-Paul Mutebi, * Alberto Gianella, ([dagger]) Amelia Travassos da Rosa, ([double dagger]) Robert B. Tesh, ([double dagger]) Alan D. T. Barrett, ([double dagger]) and Stephen Higgs ([double dagger])

* Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ([dagger]) CENETROP, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; and ([double dagger]) University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

Dr. Mutebi is a medical entomologist with the Chicago Department of Public Health. He is involved with vector-bome disease surveillance and control. His research interests include vector biology, genetics, phylogenetics, and population genetics of insect vectors.