| bloodmeal analysis in culicoides midges collected near horses, donkeys and zebras in the eastern cape, south africa. | an upsurge in african horse sickness (ahs) in the eastern cape, south africa, from 2006 led to an epidemiological reassessment of the disease there. light trapping surveys carried out near horses, donkeys and zebras in 2014-2016 collected 39 species of culicoides midge (diptera: ceratopogonidae) that are potential vectors of ahs. to establish if these midges fed on equids, dna sequences were obtained from the gut contents of 52 female midges (35 freshly blood-fed, 13 gravid and four parous), rep ... | 2019 | 31099060 |