Investigating Incursions of Bluetongue Virus Using a Model of Long-Distance Culicoides Biting Midge Dispersal

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 263-272

  Burgin, L E ^a,b   Gloster, J ^c   Sanders, C ^c   Mellor, P S ^c   Gubbins, S ^c   Carpenter, S ^c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dispersion model; Bluetongue; Culicoides; NAME; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHEEP; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; GREAT BRITAIN; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHEEP;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOVIDAE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 84876407768     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2012.01345.x     Document Type: Article

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