Molecular detection of Culicoides spp. and Culicoides imicola, the principal vector of bluetongue (BT) and African horse sickness (AHS) in Africa and Europe

Veterinary Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 325-337

  Cêtre Sossah, Catherine ^a   Baldet, Thierry ^a   Delécolle, Jean Claude ^b   Mathieu, Bruno ^c   Perrin, Aurélie ^a   Grillet, Colette ^a   Albina, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c Entente Interdepartementale pour la Demoustication du Littoral Mediterraneen   (France)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Culicoides imicola; ITS1; Molecular detection; PCR

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; EUROPE; GENBANK; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HORSE DISEASE; INSECT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; EUROPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INSECT VECTORS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARTHROPODA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HEXAPODA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 2942652427     PISSN: 09284249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2004015     Document Type: Article

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