Virus of the California Encephalitis Complex: Isolation from Culiseta inornata
Odosca Morgante 1 and
Joseph A. Shemanchuk 2
1 Provincial Laboratory of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton
2 Canada Department of Agriculture, Research Station, Lethbridge, Alberta
A virus of the California encephalitis complex was isolated from two pools of the mosquito Culiseta inornata, collected in mammalian burrows of Alberta during the summer of 1965. This is the first recorded isolation of California encephalitis virus from mosquitoes in Canada.