Wednesday, December 12, 2001: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Garden Salon 2(Conference Center, East Side, Level 2)

Informal Conference: Vector-Borne Disease in California

Session Chair(s): Alec C. Gerry
1:00 PMWelcoming Remarks
1:05 PM0880Human ehrlichiosis in an endemic area of northern California
Curtis L. Fritz
1:35 PM0881The ecology of Lyme disease in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Stan A. Wright
2:05 PM0882Lyme disease ecology in northwestern California
Lars Eisen, Robert S. Lane
2:35 PMBreak
2:50 PM0883The outlook for public health insecticides: Prospects, problems, and perspectives
Kevin J. Sweeney
3:20 PM0884Use of an orally administered chitin inhibitor (Lufenuron) to control flea vectors of plague in California
Richard M. Davis
3:50 PM0885Ecology of western equine encephalomyelitis and St. Louis encephalitis viruses in the Sonoran biome of California
William K. Reisen
4:20 PM0886Evaluation of vectorial capacity as a predictor of bluetongue transmission to cattle in southern California
Alec C. Gerry

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