Abstract
During the summer of 1979, indicator rabbits were placed in three sites in Entrelacs (Laurentian area, province of Quebec) and mosquitoes were collected in order to monitor arbovirus activity in the area. Eight seroconversions to California encephalitis (CE) group viruses were detected in rabbits during June, July, and August. Twenty-five strains identified as members of the CE group were isolated: 3 were obtained from viremic rabbit sera, 1 from adult Aedes communis reared in the laboratory from field-collected larvae, and 21 from mosquito pools. Twenty-two of these were typed as snowshoe hare (SSH) virus. No evidence of La Crosse (LAC) virus was detected but three strains belonging to the CE group showed antigenic properties different from reference SSH, LAC, or Jamestown Canyon (JC) viruses. One isolate identified as Flanders virus was obtained from Culex pipiens. Three mosquito species (A. communis, A. punctor, and A. excrucians) were involved in the transmission cycle of SSH virus in Entrelacs. This is the first report, in the province of Quebec, of SSH isolation from animal sera and the first demonstration of its transovarial transmission.
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