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Oral Susceptibility of JapaneseCulicoides(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Species to Akabane Virus
10 Nov 2018
Abstract excerpt
To test their virus susceptibility and capacity as transmission vectors, Japanese Culicoides species were artificially fed a mixture of Akabane virus (AKAV) and bovine blood, and virus recovery was attempted from infected midges 9-11 d post-exposure. Culicoides tainanus, C. punctatus, C. humeralis, C. jacobsoni, C. oxystoma, and C. asiana were found to be orally susceptible to AKAV. Virus titers in single...
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