Ticks need not bite their red grouse hosts to infect them with louping ill virus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Gilbert, Lucy ^a,f   Jones, Linda D ^b   Laurenson, M Karen ^c,g   Gould, Ernie A ^b   Reid, Hugh W ^d   Hudson, Peter J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lagopus lagopus scoticus; Louping ill virus; Red grouse; Ticks

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; GAMEBIRD; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; TICK; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING; GROOMING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; FLAVIVIRUS; LAGOPUS; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; LOUPING ILL VIRUS; PHASIANIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 2342473275     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0147     Document Type: Article

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