PCR identification of Culicoides dewulfi midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), potential vectors of bluetongue in Germany

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 367-371

  Stephan, Anja ^a   Clausen, Peter Henning ^a   Bauer, Burkhard ^a   Steuber, Stephan ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GERMANY; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; DIPTERA;

EID: 67649556497     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1407-z     Document Type: Article

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