| preferred landing sites of culicoides species (diptera: ceratopogonidae) on a horse in israel and its relevance to summer seasonal recurrent dermatitis (sweet itch). | six hundred and twenty culicoides of five species were collected from a bait horse at kannot, israel, between april and september 1986. seventy-two per cent of the midges were collected from the belly and 27 per cent from the dorsal aspect of the body, ie, the sweet itch summer seasonal recurrent dermatitis (ssrd) zone. midges were active mainly from half an hour prior to half an hour after sunset. only culicoides puncticollis, c imicola and c schultzei group were collected in considerable numbe ... | 1988 | 3215168 |
| infection of israeli culicoides with african horse sickness, blue tongue and akabane viruses. | type 9 african horse sickness virus and type 4 bluetongue virus multiplied to a high titre in an israeli strain of culicoides puncticollis after intrathoracic inoculation. akabane virus persisted for at least 10 days in this midge after intrathoracic inoculation but with little evidence of virus multiplication. all 3 viruses failed to multiply in c. puncticollis after ingestion by the oral route and all were inactivated by 4 days post infection. five other species of israeli culicoides supported ... | 1981 | 6120643 |
| some new records of culicoides species (diptera: ceratopogonidae) from iran. | biting midges of the genus culicoides act as vectors for important diseases affecting humans and both wild and domestic animals. collection of adult culicoides specimens in the near vicinity of vertebrate hosts is the major part of any bluetongue surveillance plan. there are old records of culicoides species dated from 1963, 1968 and 1975. therefore, it was decided to collect different ceratopogonids members using a light trap. | 2016 | 28032099 |
| epidemiology and control of bovine ephemeral fever. | bovine ephemeral fever (or 3-day sickness) is an acute febrile illness of cattle and water buffaloes. caused by an arthropod-borne rhabdovirus, bovine ephemeral fever virus (befv), the disease occurs seasonally over a vast expanse of the globe encompassing much of africa, the middle east, asia and australia. although mortality rates are typically low, infection prevalence and morbidity rates during outbreaks are often very high, causing serious economic impacts through loss of milk production, p ... | 2015 | 26511615 |
| community analysis of biting midges (culicoides latr.) on livestock farms in denmark. | this study presents descriptive statistics and community analysis of adult biting midges trapped at 16 livestock farms by means of light traps on zealand and lolland-falster, denmark. a total of 9,047 male and female culicoides divided into 24 species, were caught. biotic and abiotic factors ranging from presence of different host species (cattle or sheep/goats), presence of small woody areas or wetlands in the surrounding landscape, and agricultural practice (organic or conventional) were inclu ... | 2014 | 25326377 |
| biting midges monitoring (diptera: ceratopogonidae: culicoides latreille) in the governate of monastir (tunisia): species composition and molecular investigations. | the results of entomological studies carried out in the governate of monastir (tunisia) in 2009-2010 (captures and emergences from muds) focusing on culicoides species are presented in the present study. identification of culicoides at the species level is based on morphological characters, and a molecular study has been carried out based on mitochondrial dna cytochrome c oxidase i gene (coi) and d1 and d2 domains of the 28s rdna. the dna sequences reported here are related to 10 species (on 25 ... | 2014 | 24825311 |