Volume 10, Number 12, December 2004

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus, Southern Mexico

José G. Estrada-Franco,* Roberto Navarro-Lopez,† Jerome E. Freier,‡ Dionicio Cordova,§ Tamara Clements,¶ Abelardo Moncayo,* Wenli Kang,* Carlos Gomez-Hernandez,# Gabriela Rodriguez-Dominguez,# George V. Ludwig,¶ and Scott C. Weaver*
*University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; †Comision Mexico-Estados Unidos para la Prevencion de la Fiebre Aftosa y Otras Enfermedades Exoticas de los Animales, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; ‡U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; §Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agricolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP) Mexico City, Mexico; ¶U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, USA; and #Instituto de Salud de la Secretaria de Salud de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico

Figure 1. Satellite image of the Pacific coastal areas studied for Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus activity (Landsat thematic mapper). Bands 4, 5, and 1 are displayed as a red-green-blue false-color composite. The villages sampled are indicated in yellow.

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