| isolation of haemolytic bacilli from field-collected culicoides oxystoma and culicoides peregrinus: potential vectors of bluetongue virus in west bengal, india. | two haemolytic bacterial strains of bacillus pumilus (cu1a, cu1b) and one blood-utilizing strain of bacillus licheniformis (cu2b) were isolated from relatively low numbers of field-collected females of culicoides oxystoma and culicoides peregrinus (diptera: ceratopogonidae). a total of 36 females, including 18 of each of c. oxystoma and c. peregrinus (consisting of one and a pool of eight blood-engorged specimens, and one and a pool of eight non-engorged specimens for each species), were tested. ... | 2015 | 25644315 |