Project Number: 6618-22000-034-03
Project Type: Reimbursable

Start Date: Jun 01, 2003
End Date: May 31, 2008

Objective:
Determine the potential for increase and distance of spread of Leprosis (CiLV)in commercial and residential citrus in order to develop eradication/suppression/control strategies and evaluate their efficacy. Develop CiLV diagnosis/confirmation technology.

Approach:
Making disease assessments, collect data, monitoring vector populations, and collect meteriological variable information. Establish trap lines to determine long distance spread of leprosis. Correlate the prevalence of mite species with fluctuations in disease development. Determine the long distance spread of the virus emanating from an infested grove. Determine the temporal increase of Leprosis. Model the distance of disease spread within groves. Develop a temporal model to estimate disease increase for predictive purposes and economic/crop loss estimates. Correlate the prevalence of mite species with fluctuations in disease development. Evaluate the effect of mite vector control on epidemic increase and spread.