smaller hand-held solutions for point-of-need pathogen detection. Here, samples of Culex
cedecei mosquitoes collected in Southern Florida, USA were tested for Venezuelan Equine
Encephalitis Virus (VEEV), a previously-weaponized arthropod-borne RNA-virus capable of
causing acute and fatal encephalitis in animal and human hosts. A single 20-mosquito pool
tested positive for VEEV by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT …