Jamestown Canyon Virus in Collected Mosquitoes, Maine, United States, 2017-2019

Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Nov;28(11):2330-2333. doi: 10.3201/eid2811.212382.

Abstract

Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a mosquito-borne arbovirus that circulates in North America. We detected JCV in 4 pools of mosquitoes collected from midcoastal Maine, USA, during 2017-2019. Phylogenetic analysis of a JCV sequence obtained from Aedes cantator mosquitoes clustered within clade A, which also circulates in Connecticut, USA.

Keywords: Jamestown Canyon virus; Maine; United States; mosquitoes; orthobunyavirus; phylogenetics; vector-borne infections; viruses; zoonoses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Aedes*
  • Animals
  • Arboviruses*
  • Culicidae*
  • Encephalitis Virus, California* / genetics
  • Maine / epidemiology
  • Phylogeny