Mechanical transmission of lumpy skin disease virus by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus male ticks

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 425-430

  Tuppurainen, E S M ^a   Lubinga, J C ^b   Stoltsz, W H ^b   Troskie, M ^b   Carpenter, S T ^a   Coetzer, J A W ^b   Venter, E H ^b   Oura, C A L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Capripoxvirus; lumpy skin disease virus; poxvirus; Rhipicephalus appendiculatus; tick vector transmission

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAPRIPOXVIRUS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POXVIRUS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; SEROCONVERSION; SKIN DEFECT; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE VECTORS; LUMPY SKIN DISEASE; LUMPY SKIN DISEASE VIRUS; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; SKIN; VIREMIA;

EID: 84876950562     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000805     Document Type: Article

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