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Significantly more <jats:italic>Culex quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic> females were collected by gravid traps at Outbreak sites (22.2 per trap night) than at control sites (8.9 per trap night), indicating higher <jats:italic>Cx. quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic> abundance in the outbreak area. Twenty-eight WNV TaqMan reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction\u2013positive mosquito pools were identified, including 24 of <jats:italic>Cx. quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic>, 3 of <jats:italic>Psorophora columbiae<\/jats:italic>, and 1 of <jats:italic>Culex<\/jats:italic> sp. However, <jats:italic>Cx. quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic> WNV infection rates did not differ between outbreak and control sites. At outbreak sites, 30 of 39 engorged <jats:italic>Cx. quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic> had fed on birds, 8 of 39 on humans, and 1 of 39 on a lizard. At control sites, 20 of 20 identified blood meals were from birds. Data suggest that <jats:italic>Cx. quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic> was the primary enzootic and epidemic vector of this outbreak. The most important parameters in the outbreak were vector abundance and blood meal analysis, which suggested more frequent contact between <jats:italic>Cx. quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic> and human hosts in the outbreak area compared with the control area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.2012.11-0700","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,10,30]],"date-time":"2012-10-30T05:46:07Z","timestamp":1351575967000},"page":"1125-1131","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Entomologic Investigations during an Outbreak of West Nile Virus Disease in Maricopa County, Arizona, 2010"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"87","author":[{"given":"Marvin 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