Entry of bluetongue vector Culicoides imicola into livestock premises in Spain

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 202-208

  Calvete, C ^a   Estrada, R ^b   Miranda, M A ^c   Del Rio, R ^c   BorrAs D ^d   Beldron, F J ^e   MartInez A ^e   Calvo, A J ^e   Lucientes, J ^b  

^a Unidad de Sanidad Vegetal   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d Instituto de Biología Animal de Las Islas Baleares IBABSA   (Spain)

^e Sanidad Animal y Servicios Ganaderos grupo TRAGSA (TRAGSEGA)   (Spain)

Author keywords

African horse sickness; Bluetongue; Culicoides imicola; Exophilic; Spain

Indexed keywords

BASIN; CORRELATION; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LIVESTOCK; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SURVEYING; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MANURE; PARASITOLOGY; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPAIN; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MANURE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; EQUIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 68949105597     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00801.x     Document Type: Article

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