Identification of a novel bluetongue virus vector species of Culicoides in Sicily

Veterinary Record

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 71-74

  Caracappa, S ^a   Torina, A ^a   Guercio, A ^a   Vitale, F ^a   Calabro A ^a   Purpari, G ^a   Ferrantelli, V ^a   Vitale, M ^a   Mellor, P S ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SICILIA A MIRRI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; INSECT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; SHEEP DISEASE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; INSECTA; ORBIVIRUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0041670753     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.153.3.71     Document Type: Article

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