Culicoides and the spread of bluetongue: finding the needle in the haystack

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Publication

Contributors

Carpenter S

Year

2011

Journal

Veterinary Record

Volume

168

Issue

9

Pages

238-239

Associated groups

Extreme close up of a Culicoides nubeculosus on skin with blood droplets

Entomology

Dr Christopher Sanders

Associated viruses

Bluetongue virus

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