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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Vector monitoring at Belgian outbreak sites during the bluetongue epidemic of 2006
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Volume 87, No. 1-2, Year 2008
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Description
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. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
de Deken, Gill
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Madder, Maxime
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Deblauwe, Isra
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
de Clercq, Kris E.
Belgium, Brussels
Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre
Fassotte, Christiane
Belgium, Gembloux
Wallon Agricultural Research Centre
Losson, Bertrand
Belgium, Liege
Université de Liège
Haubruge, Éric
Belgium, Liege
Université de Liège
de Deken, Reginald
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Statistics
Citations: 37
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.06.006
ISSN:
01675877
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative