Pig farms: Reservoirs of vectors of bluetongue and schmallenberg viruses?;Les porcheries: Réservoirs des culicoides (diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Vecteurs des virus de la maladie de la langue bleue et de schmallenberg ?

Biotechnology, Agronomy and Society and Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 480-487

  Zimmer, Jean Yves ^a   Saegerman, Claude ^b   Martinelle, Ludovic ^b   Losson, Bertrand ^b   Leroy, Pascal ^a   Haubruge, Éric ^a   Francis, FréDéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Universite de Liege   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Bluetongue; Culicoides; Light traps; Piggeries; Vectors

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 84918807337     PISSN: 13706233     EISSN: 17804507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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