Vector monitoring at Belgian outbreak sites during the bluetongue epidemic of 2006

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 64-73

  De Deken, G ^a   Madder, M ^a   Deblauwe, I ^a   De Clercq, K ^b   Fassotte, C ^c   Losson, B ^d   Haubruge, E ^d   De Deken, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c WALLOON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biting midges; Bluetongue; Culicoides; Trapping; Vector

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INSECT VECTORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SHEEP;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 49549124731     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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