2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SVPHS2. Structural, Veterinary, and Public Health Systems

Integration of irradiation and cytoplasmic incompatibility to facilitate a lymphatic filariasis vector elimination approach
Corey L. Brelsfoard, University of Kentucky; Ali Soleimani-Meigooni, University of Kentucky; William St. Clair, University of Kentucky; Stephen Dobson, University of Kentucky

0575

The effect of long and short-distance lures in the attraction of the blood-sucking bugs Triatoma dimidiata and Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
Marc Milne, Old Dominion University; Philipp Kirsch, APTIV; Daniel E. Sonenshine, Old Dominion University; Elizabeth Ross, Old Dominion University

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0576

Characterization of life-shortening Wolbachia infection in Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito)
Eunho Suh, University of Kentucky; Yuqing Fu, University of Kentucky; David R. Mercer, University of Kentucky; Stephen L. Dobson, University of Kentucky

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0577

Range expansion of the sand fly, Lutzomyia shannoni (Dyar) (Diptera: Psychodidae): Climate change, and a heat unit accumulation model
Logan M. Minter, University of Kentucky; G. C. Brown, University of Kentucky

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0578

Pattern classification of movement behaviors of indicator specimens using permutation entropy after treatments with Diazinon
Mu Qiao, Pusan National University; Yuedan Liu, Pusan National University; Young-Hae Do, Kyungpook National University; Hun Ki Baek, Kyungpook National University; Yongkuk Kim, Kyungpook National University; Tae-Soo Chon, Pusan National University

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0579

Seasonal host switching by mosquitoes may drive arbovirus epizootics
Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Auburn University; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University; Hassan Hassan, University of South Florida; Thomas R Unnasch, University of South Florida

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0580

Genetic identification and environmental modeling of Borrelia pathogens isolated from Arkansas ticks and mammals
Rebecca T Trout, University of Arkansas; Dayton Steelman, University of Arkansas; Allen Szalanski, University of Arkansas; Kenneth Kvamme, University of Arkansas; Phillip Williamson, University of North Texas Health Science Center

0581

Assessing the impact of density-dependence on a natural population of Aedes aegypti larvae
Rachael Sarah Katz, North Carolina State University; Luca Facchinelli, University of California, Davis; Janine Ramsey Willoquet, Centro Regional de Investigaciòn en Salud Pùblica/CISEI, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; J. Guillermo Bond Compeán, Centro Regional de Investigaciòn en Salud Pùblica/CISEI, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; Fred Gould, North Carolina State University

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0582

Using incidence rates and spatial analyses to identify areas for targeted interventions of La Crosse encephalitis in West Virginia, 2003 – 2007
Andrew D. Haddow, University of Tennessee; Carl J. Jones, University of Tennessee; Reid R. Gerhardt, University of Tennessee; Humbert Zappia, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources; Agricola Odoi, University of Tennessee

0583

Water agitation: A stimulus for egg hatching of Anopheles gambiae
Babak Ebrahimi, The Ohio State University; WA. Foster, The Ohio State University

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0584

Larval rearing temperature affects susceptibility of Aedes albopictus to chikungunya virus
Catherine J. Westbrook, University of Florida; Michael H. Reiskind, University of Florida; Kendra N. Pesko, University of Florida; Krystle Greene, University of Florida; L. Philip Lounibos, University of Florida

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0585

Olfactory conditioning of Anopheles dirus (Peyton & Harrison 1979) (Diptera: Culicidae) to a sugar-meal
Michelle R. Sanford, Texas A&M University; Pradya Somboon, Chiang Mai University; Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University; Jimmy K. Olson, Texas A&M University

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