Role of different Culicoides vectors (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in bluetongue virus transmission and overwintering in Sardinia (Italy)

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Foxi, Cipriano ^a   Delrio, Gavino ^a   Falchi, Giovanni ^a   Marche, Maria Giovanna ^a   Satta, Giuseppe ^b   Ruiu, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biting midges; Bluetongue; BTV; Culicoides vectors; Infection rate; Seasonal abundance; Virus detection; Virus overwintering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; OVERWINTERING; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; LIVESTOCK; MALE;

EID: 85007610504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1733-9     Document Type: Article

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