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Spatio-temporal occurrence of Culicoides biting midges in the climatic regions of Switzerland, along with large scale species identification by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

BACKGROUND: Culicoides biting midges are incriminated as biological vectors of a number of viruses, e.g. bluetongue virus. In order to define vector-free periods/areas and to assess the vectorial role of the various Culicoides species, a comprehensive knowledge on their spatio-temporal occurrence is...

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Autores principales: Kaufmann, Christian, Steinmann, Irene C, Hegglin, Daniel, Schaffner, Francis, Mathis, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23111100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-246