Vector species of Culicoides midges implicated in the 2012-2014 Bluetongue epidemics in Italy;Specie di Culicoides coinvolte nell’epidemia di Bluetongue 2012-2014 in Italia

Veterinaria Italiana

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-138

  Goffredo, Maria ^a   Catalani, Monica ^a   Federici, Valentina ^a   Portanti, Ottavio ^a   Marini, Valeria ^a   Mancini, Giuseppe ^a   Quaglia, Michela ^a   Santilli, Adriana ^a   Teodori, Liana ^a   Savini, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL ABRUZZO E DEL MOLISE G CAPORALE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; C. newsteadi; C. punctatus; Culicoides; Vector competence

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; DIPTERA;

ANIMAL; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; SHEEP; TIME FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84934281952     PISSN: 0505401X     EISSN: 18281427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12834/VetIt.771.3854.1     Document Type: Article

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