Culicoides biting midges: Their role as arbovirus vectors

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2000, Pages 307-340

  Mellor, P S ^a   Boorman, J ^a   Baylis, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Climate; Culicoides; Satellite imagery; Vectors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARBOVIRUSES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0034112528     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.307     Document Type: Article

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