Potential role of ticks as vectors of bluetongue virus

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-192

  Bouwknegt, Chantal ^a   van Rijn, Piet A ^b   Schipper, Jacqueline J M ^a   Hölzel, Dennis ^b   Boonstra, Jan ^b   Nijhof, Ard M ^a   van Rooij, Eugène M A ^b,c   Jongejan, Frans ^a,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Artificial infection; Bluetongue virus; In vitro feeding; Ticks

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TICK; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; OVARY; PARASITE VECTOR; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; MALE; ORNITHODOROS; OVARY; SALIVARY GLANDS;

EUROPE;

ARGASIDAE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BLUETONGUE VIRUS 8; CHIRONOMIDAE; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODES; IXODES HEXAGONUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS SAVIGNYI; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA;

EID: 77956179752     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-010-9359-7     Document Type: Article

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