Bluetongue /

The third volume in the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) Biology of Animal Infections Series, Bluetongue discusses one of the most economically important diseases of domesticated livestock. Affecting primarily sheep particularly the improved mutton and wool breeds, it is now endemic in Africa, India...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mellor, P. S. (Philip S.), Baylis, Matthew, D.Phil, Mertens, Peter P. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Biology of animal infections.
Temas:
Bluetongue.
Bluetongue virus.
Bluetongue > Epidemiology.
Insects as carriers of disease.
Bluetongue > epidemiology
Bluetongue virus
Bluetongue
Cattle > virology
Insect Vectors
Sheep > virology
Fi�evre catarrhale.
Virus de la fi�evre catarrhale.
Fi�evre catarrhale > �Epid�emiologie.
Insectes (Vecteurs de maladies)
MEDICAL > Veterinary Medicine > Food Animal.
Insects as carriers of disease
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
  • PREFACE
  • GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  • The Orbiviruses
  • The History of BT pre 1998
  • BT and climate change
  • Replication and biochemistry
  • BTV structure
  • Molecular epidemiology
  • BTV in the mammalian host
  • BTV in the insect host
  • Dynamics of BTV epidemiology
  • Clinical signs and pathology
  • BT on the Indian subcontinent
  • BTV in the Americas
  • BT in Australasia and China
  • BT in the Mediterranean basin
  • Diagnostics
  • Vaccines past and present
  • Control strategies
  • Conclusions
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Key references.

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