Dr . Robert Novak, a professor of medical entomology at the University of Illinois, who has started studying the DNA of the beetles, said he had seen " a marker that looks very good " for differentiating between the beetles that like soybeans and the ones that do not.
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Robert Traub was born in Manhattan, received a B . S . in biology from City College in 1938, an M . S . in medical entomology from Cornell in 1939, and, after service in the Army, a doctorate in the same field from the University of Illinois in 1947.
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Researchers at the university's Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach cautioned that while the state has avoided the sort of outbreak now gripping Louisiana, where eight deaths have been attributed to West Nile, Florida's tourist-friendly tropical climate is better suited than any other spot in the country to fostering its spread.
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"' Dr . Clara Southmayd Ludlow "', the first woman known to publish extensively on the taxonomy of mosquitoes and their occurrence in relation to the incidence of mosquito-borne diseases, forged a notable career in medical entomology during a time when women were rare among the ranks of entomologists, and she did so in association with the military, where the presence of women was even more rare.
