Host preferences of palaearctic culicoides biting midges: Implications for transmission of orbiviruses

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-266

  Viennet, E ^a,b   Garros, C ^a   Gardes L ^a   Rakotoarivony, I ^a   Allene X ^a   Lancelot, R ^a   Crochet, D ^c   Moulia, C ^d   Baldet, T ^a   Balenghien, T ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

African horse sickness; Bluetongue; Culicoides; Host preference; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAIT; ENTOMOLOGY; FLY; HORSE; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PALEARCTIC REGION; RUMINANT; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); VIRUS;

WESTERN EUROPE;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; CULICOIDES; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOST PREFERENCE; LIVESTOCK; MALE; ORBIVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REOVIRUS INFECTION; VIROLOGY; WESTERN EUROPE;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; BLUETONGUE; CULICOIDES; HOST PREFERENCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHICKENS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; INSECT VECTORS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; ORBIVIRUS; REOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84881601948     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.01042.x     Document Type: Article

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