Implicating Culicoides Biting Midges as Vectors of Schmallenberg Virus Using Semi-Quantitative RT-PCR

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Veronesi, Eva ^a   Henstock, Mark ^a   Gubbins, Simon ^a   Batten, Carrie ^a   Manley, Robyn ^a   Barber, James ^a   Hoffmann, Bernd ^b   Beer, Martin ^b   Attoui, Houssam ^a   Mertens, Peter Paul Clement ^a   Carpenter, Simon ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES SONORENSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; EUROPE; HEAD; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS; SEMI QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; INSECT VECTORS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84873682887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057747     Document Type: Article

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