Culicoides in relation to transmission of African horse sickness virus in The Gambia

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-159

  Rawlings, P ^a,d   Snow, W F ^b   Boorman, J ^c   Denison, E ^a   Hamblin, C ^a   Mellor, P S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b International Trypanotolerance Centre Gambia   (Gambia)

^c University of the West of England ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African horse sickness; Culicoides; Orbivirus detection; The Gambia; Vectors

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; MIDGE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ORBIVIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROLOGY;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HORSES; INSECT VECTORS; ORBIVIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

GAMBIA;

AFRICAN HORSESICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMALIA; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES MIOMBO; CULICOIDES SCHULTZEI; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; ORBIVIRUS;

EID: 0032053129     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1998.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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