A new algorithm quantifies the roles of wind and midge flight activity in the bluetongue epizootic in northwest Europe

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1737, 2012, Pages 2354-2362

  Sedda, Luigi ^a   Brown, Heidi E ^b   Purse, Bethan V ^c   Burgin, Laura ^d   Gloster, John ^e   Rogers, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Culicoides flight; Disease spread; Mechanistic and stochastic simulation; Wind fields

Indexed keywords

BOS; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; OVIS ARIES;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; BOVIDS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; WIND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RUMINANTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WIND;

EID: 84865605475     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2555     Document Type: Article

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