The spatial and seasonal distribution of African horse sickness and its potential Culicoides vectors in Morocco

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-212

  Baylis, M ^a   El Hasnaoui, H ^b   Bouayoune, H ^b   Touti, J ^b   Mellor, P S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Lab Reg d'Analyses Rech V   (Morocco)

Author keywords

African horse sickness virus; AHS; AHSV; Culicoides imicola; Culicoides spp.; Equine; Morocco

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; DISEASE DISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VECTOR DISTRIBUTION;

MOROCCO;

AFRICAN HORSESICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMALIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; INSECTA;

EID: 0031193746     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1997.tb00397.x     Document Type: Article

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