Monitoring of Culicoides spp. at a site enzootic for hemorrhagic disease in white-tailed deer in Georgia, USA

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 627-642

  Smith, Kirk E ^a   Stallknecht, David E ^a   Sewell, Christopher T ^a   Rollor, Edward A ^a   Mullen, Gary R ^b   Anderson, Renee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluetongue virus; Culicoides spp; Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus; Epizootiology; Georgia; Hemorrhagic disease; Odocoileus virginianus; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CERVIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES ARBORICOLA; CULICOIDES BIGUTTATUS; CULICOIDES GUTTIPENNIS; CULICOIDES HAEMATOPOTUS; CULICOIDES NIGER; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PARAENSIS; CULICOIDES SPINOSUS; CULICOIDES STELLIFER; CULICOIDES VARIIPENNIS; CULICOIDES VENUSTUS; DIPTERA; EPIZOOTIC HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; OVIS ARIES; STELLIFER;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; INFESTATION; MALE; ORBIVIRUS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SHEEP DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DEER; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, EPIZOOTIC; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PREVALENCE; REOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 0030251801     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-32.4.627     Document Type: Article

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