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. 2008 Nov 15;163(20):589-92.
doi: 10.1136/vr.163.20.589.

Experimental infection studies of UK Culicoides species midges with bluetongue virus serotypes 8 and 9

S Carpenter  1 , C McArthur, R Selby, R Ward, D V Nolan, A J Mordue Luntz, J F Dallas, F Tripet, P S Mellor
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Experimental infection studies of UK Culicoides species midges with bluetongue virus serotypes 8 and 9

S Carpenter et al. Vet Rec. .

Abstract

This paper describes a rapid, standardised method for testing the susceptibility to bluetongue virus (BTV) of northern Palaearctic Culicoides species midges that can be used to assess the competence of both field-caught and laboratory-infected midges. The method has been used to show that Culicoides scoticus can replicate btv serotype 8 and BTV serotype 9 strains to more than 3 log(10) TCID50/midge, the first evidence of the potential of this species to transmit BTV.

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