The Mondrian matrix: Culicoides biting midge abundance and seasonal incidence during the 2006-2008 epidemic of bluetongue in the Netherlands

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-20

  Meiswinkel, R ^a,b   Scolamacchia, F ^a,c   Dik, M ^b   Mudde, J ^b   Dijkstra, E ^b   Van Der Ven, I J K ^b   Elbers, A R W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b National Plant Protection Organization   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biting midges; Blacklight; Cattle; Phenology; Sheep; Veterinary disease vector; Virus

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIC; FAUNA; FLY; PHENOLOGY; SHEEP; VIRUS;

NETHERLANDS; NORTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES GRISESCENS; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; CULICOIDES MARITIMUS; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PALLIDICORNIS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; CULICOIDES RIETHI; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLACKLIGHT; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SHEEP; VETERINARY DISEASE VECTOR; VIRUS;

BITING MIDGES; BLACKLIGHT; CATTLE; PHENOLOGY; SHEEP; VETERINARY DISEASE VECTOR; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SHEEP;

EID: 84893665579     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12013     Document Type: Article

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