Role of dogs (Canis domesticus) as hosts for African horse sickness virus

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 19-25

  Braverman, Y ^a   Chizov Ginzburg, A ^a  

^a KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens; Culex univittatus; Culicoides imicola; Culicoides schultzei; Dog

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; HOST; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS;

EID: 0030198053     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(96)00009-0     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Anderson, G.S., Belton, P. and Kleider, N., 1991. Culicoides obsoletus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as a causal agent of Culicoides hypersensitivity (sweet itch) in British Columbia. J. Med. Entomol., 28: 685-693.
2. Braverman, Y. and Phelps, R.J., 1981. Species composition and blood meal identification in samples of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) collected near Salisbury Zimbabwe in 1976-77. J. Ent. Soc. Sth. Afr., 44: 315-323.
3. Braverman, Y., Boreham, P.F.L. and Galun, R., 1971. The origin of blood meals of female Culicoides pallidipennis trapped in a sheepfold in Israel. J. Med. Entomol., 8: 379-381.
4. Braverman, Y., Kitron, U. and Killick-Kendrick, R., 1991. Attractiveness of vertebrate hosts to Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) and other mosquitoes in Israel. J. Med. Entomol., 28: 133-138.
5. Braverman, Y., Boreham, P.F.L., Galun, R. and Ziv, M., 1977. The origin of blood meals of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) trapped in turkey runs in Israel. Rhod. J. Agric. Res., 15: 101-104.
6. DuToit, R.M., 1944. The transmission of bluetongue and horse-sickness by Culicoides. Onderstepoort J. Vet. Sci. Anim. Ind., 19: 7-16.
7. El-Husseini, M.M., Salama, S.A., Abdallah, S.K., Abu Bakr, H.E. and Hassanein, M.M., 1984. Role of the mosquito Culex pipiens L. in recovering latent African-horse-sickness virus from dogs. Assiut Vet. Med. J., 13: 113-124.
8. Lubroth, J., 1992. The complete epidemiologic cycle of African horse sickness: our incomplete knowledge. In: T.E. Walton and B.I. Osburn (Editors), Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Bluetongue, African Horse Sickness, and Related Orbivirus spp, CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 197-204.
9. McIntosh, B.M., 1955. Horsesickness antibodies in the sera of dogs in enzootic areas. J. S. Afr. Vet. Med. Ass., 26: 269-272.
10. Mellor, P.S., 1993. African horse sickness: transmission and epidemiology. Vet. Res., 24: 199-212.
11. Mellor, P.S., 1994. Epizootiology and vectors of African horse sickness virus. Comp. Immun. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., 17: 287-296.
12. Mellor, P. and McCaig, J., 1974. The probable cause of 'sweet itch' in England. Vet. Rec., 95: 411-415.
13. Mellor, P.S., Boned, J., Hamblin, C. and Graham, S.D., 1990. Isolation of African horse sickness virus from vector insects made during the 1988 epizootic in Spain. Epidemiol. Infect., 105: 447-454.
14. Mezenev, N.P., 1990. Blood-sucking midges (Ceratopogonidae) from the north of central Siberia. Parazit., 24: 28-36 (in Russian).
15. M'Fadyean, J., 1910. The susceptibility of the dog to African horsesickness. J. Comp. Pathol., 23: 27-33.
16. Nevill, E.M. and Anderson, D., 1972. Host preference of Culicoides midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in South Africa as determined by precipitin tests and light traps catches. Onderstepoort J. Vet. Res., 39: 147-152.
17. Ramos, H.C., Ribeiro, H. and Novo, M.T., 1992. Mosquito ecology in south-eastern Portugal, an area receptive to African horsesickness. Bull. Soc. Vector Ecol., 17: 85-93.
18. Salama, S.A., Dardiri, A.H., Awad, F.I., Soliman, A.M. and Amin, M.M., 1981. Isolation and identification of African horsesickness virus from naturally infected dogs in Upper Egypt. Can. J. Comp. Med., 45: 392-396.
19. SAS Institute, 1982. SAS users' guide: statistics. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
20. Suenaga, O., 1979. Studies on filaria prevalence among dogs and the mosquito vectors in Nagasaki city. Trop. Med., 14: 144-150.
21. Wulfsberg, S., 1989. Field observation on the infestation of horses by biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in northern Germany. Thesis, Tierarztliche Hochschule Hannover, Germany (in German).