Indoor activity of Culicoides associated with livestock in the bluetongue virus (BTV) affected region of northern France during autumn 2006

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 84-97

  Baldet, T ^a   Delecolle J C ^b   Cetre Sossah C ^c   Mathieu, B ^d   Meiswinkel, R ^e   Gerbier, G ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UMR ASTRE   (France)

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

^e CICD Lelystad ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Culicoides; France; Obsoletus group; Pulicaris group

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FRANCE; INSECT VECTORS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SHEEP;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 49549085039     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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