Spatial and temporal distribution of bluetongue and its Culicoides vectors in Bulgaria

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-344

  Purse, B V ^a,c   Nedelchev, N ^b   Georgiev, G ^b   Veleva, E ^b   Boorman, J ^a   Denison, E ^a   Veronesi, E ^a   Carpenter, S ^a   Baylis, M ^a   Mellor, P S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b National Diagnostic and Research Veterinary Medical Institute   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Bulgaria; Culicoides obsoletus; Culicoides pulicaris; Distribution; Transmission; Vectors

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; PATHOGENICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; BULGARIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BULGARIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INSECT VECTORS; SEASONS; SHEEP;

BULGARIA; BURGAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BLUETONGUE VIRUS 9; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845605958     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2006.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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