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Measurement of the Infection and Dissemination of Bluetongue Virus in Culicoides Biting Midges Using a Semi-Quantitative RT-PCR Assay and Isolation of Infectious Virus

BACKGROUND: Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are the biological vectors of globally significant arboviruses of livestock including bluetongue virus (BTV), African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and the recently emerging Schmallenberg virus (SBV). From 2006–2009 outbreaks of BTV in no...

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Autores principales: Veronesi, Eva, Antony, Frank, Gubbins, Simon, Golding, Nick, Blackwell, Alison, Mertens, Peter PC., Brownlie, Joe, Darpel, Karin E., Mellor, Philip S., Carpenter, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23940643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070800