Laura D. Kramer, Sally B. Presser, E. J. Houk
Sep 1, 1990
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Journal of medical entomology
Abstract
Triethylamine (TEA) is a chemical compound that provides an effective means to anesthetize mosquitoes. The mosquitoes remain alive but are incapacitated for several hours; they do not recover following treatment. There was no effect on the titers of infectious virus recovered from western equine encephalomyelitis or St. Louis encephalitis virus-infected Culex tarsalis Coquillett and Aedes dorsalis (Meigen) that were anesthetized with TEA prior to storage at -70 degrees C. Furthermore, TEA had no effect on isoenzyme profiles of uninfected Cx. tarsalis.