Vector monitoring at Belgian outbreak sites during the bluetongue epidemic of 2006.
Prev Vet Med
; 87(1-2): 64-73, 2008 Oct 15.
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| ID: mdl-18640732
ABSTRACT
In response to the first bluetongue outbreak in Belgium a monitoring programme was started at the end of August 2006 to identify possible vectors transmitting the disease. Black light traps were deployed at 36 outbreak sites and captured 1959 Culicoides specimens belonging to 16 different species. Eighty four percent of the biting midges captured belonged to the C. obsoletus complex, among them C. obsoletus s.s., C. dewulfi and C. scoticus, three suspected bluetongue vectors. The Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre detected viral RNA in pools of individuals belonging to this complex. Culicoides pulicaris, a potential bluetongue vector in Italy, should yet not be excluded as a possible vector in Belgium as this species was frequently found around outbreak sites, notwithstanding this species is not easily captured with the trapping techniques used during this survey.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Ceratopogonidae
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Surtos de Doenças
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Vírus Bluetongue
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Insetos Vetores
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article