Potential strategies for control of bluetongue, a globally emerging, Culicoides-transmitted viral disease of ruminant livestock and wildlife

Antiviral Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 79-90

  Maclachlan, N James ^a   Mayo, Christie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Bluetongue; Culicoides midges; Orbivirus

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; AUTUMN; BLUETONGUE; BOVIDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULICOIDES; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; SUMMER; VACCINATION; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WASTE WATER; WILDLIFE;

ARBOVIRUS; BLUETONGUE; CULICOIDES MIDGES; ORBIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; LIVESTOCK; RUMINANTS; VACCINATION;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTIODACTYLA; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ORBIVIRUS;

EID: 84878719761     PISSN: 01663542     EISSN: 18729096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.04.021     Document Type: Review

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