Volume 11, Number 7, July 2005

West Nile Virus Surveillance, Guadeloupe, 2003–2004

Thierry Lefrançois,* Bradley J. Blitvich,† Jennifer Pradel,* Sophie Molia,* Nathalie Vachiéry,* Guillaume Pallavicini,* Nicole L. Marlenee,† Stéphan Zientara,‡ Martial Petitclerc,§ and Dominique Martinez*
*Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Prise d'Eau, Guadeloupe, French West Indies; †Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; ‡Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments, Paris, France; and §Direction des Services Vétérinaires de Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Figure 2. Ecologic map of Guadeloupe and West Nile virus (WNV)-positive equine centers. Basse Terre (southwest) is mainly mountainous (volcanic, highest point 1,467 m) and wet. Grande Terre (northeast) is flat (mainly <100 m) and dry. Marie Galante is flat (plateaus <200 m) but has more water than Grande Terre. The ecologic map was derived from "Carte écologique de la Guadeloupe," created by Alain Rousteau, University Antilles-Guyane. Equine centers with WNV-seropositive equines are represented by red circles (the size of each circle is proportional to the number of seropositive equines). Centers without WNV-seropositive equines are represented by white circles (the size of each circle is proportional to the number of equines tested). The red asterisk shows a site that contained 3 seropositive equines. All were race horses that travel frequently and thus may have been infected elsewhere.

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