| seroepidemiology of bluetongue in south bengal. | with the aim of revealing the epidemiological intricacies of bluetongue (bt) in the southern part of west bengal state, the present study was undertaken to assess seroprevalence of bt along with identification of the vector of the disease, i.e., culicoides midges available in the region in their breeding season with conducive environmental factors, if any. | 2016 | 27051176 |
| dna barcoding and surveillance sampling strategies for culicoides biting midges (diptera: ceratopogonidae) in southern india. | culicoides spp. biting midges transmit bluetongue virus (btv), the aetiological agent of bluetongue (bt), an economically important disease of ruminants. in southern india, hyperendemic outbreaks of bt exert high cost to subsistence farmers in the region, impacting on sheep production. effective culicoides spp. monitoring methods coupled with accurate species identification can accelerate responses for minimising bt outbreaks. here, we assessed the utility of sampling methods and dna barcoding f ... | 2016 | 27549137 |
| evolution of bluetongue virus serotype 1 in northern australia over 30 years. | bluetongue virus serotype 1 (btv 1) was first isolated in australia from cattle blood collected in 1979 at beatrice hill farm (bhf), northern territory (nt). from long-term surveillance programs (1977 to 2011), 2,487 isolations of 10 btv serotypes were made. the most frequently isolated serotype was btv 1 (41%, 1,019) followed by btv 16 (17.5%, 436) and btv 20 (14%, 348). in 3 years, no btvs were isolated, and in 12 years, no btv 1 was isolated. seventeen btv 1 isolates were sequenced and analyz ... | 2014 | 25253345 |
| integrative taxonomy to investigate species boundaries within culicoides (diptera: ceratopogonidae): a case study using subgenus avaritia from australasia and eastern asia. | in this study, species boundaries were examined for 15 described and 2 undescribed species within the economically important culicoides subg. avaritia fox from australasia and eastern asia. we used an integrative taxonomic approach incorporating dna barcoding, nuclear gene sequencing, and retrospective morphological analyses. some arbovirus vector species such as culicoides fulvus sen and das gupta and culicoides wadai kitaoka were genetically and morphologically uniform across sampled distribut ... | 2016 | 26741249 |