| analysis of climatic factors involved in the btv-1 incursion in central italy in 2014. | in 2012, six years after the previous epidemic, bluetongue virus serotype 1 (btv-1) re-emerged in sardinia causing a limited number of outbreaks. due to impossibility of implementing a vaccination campaign, the btv-1 then spread all over the island in 2013 with about 7,000 outbreaks and, in september 2013, the virus reached central italy, with a limited number of outbreaks located along the tyrrhenian coast. the surveillance system in place in italy detected viral circulation during the followin ... | 2016 | 27723030 |
| ovine catarrhal fever (bluetongue): analysis of culicoides species in seropositive farms. | bluetongue (bt) is an orbiviral disease of wild and domestic ruminants, mainly sheep. in sicily, the first bluetongue outbreak occurred in october 2000; there have been 76 recorded outbreaks so far. the national surveillance plan, based on european union commission decision 138/2001/ce, establishes serological and entomological surveys. this plan consists of controls of seronegative cattle, called 'sentry' as indicators for the presence and circulation of virus in defined areas. to check the ser ... | 2010 | 20537094 |