Susceptibility of Culicoides variipennis sonorensis to infection by polymerase chain reaction-detectable bluetongue virus in cattle blood

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 481-485

  Tabachnick, Walter J ^a   MacLachlan, N James ^b   Thompson, Lee H ^a   Hunt, Gregg J ^a   Patton, John F ^b  

^a USDA ARS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029894193     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.54.481     Document Type: Article

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