Isolation of Tahyna virus from biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) in Czecho-Slovakia.
A total of 14,250 haematophagous biting midges (genus Culicoides, Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) were collected in June 1986 in the mountains Ceskomoravská vysocina (about 600 m above sea level); from these 2 strains of Tahyna virus (serogroup California, Bunyaviridae) were isolated. To our knowledge this is the first isolation of a California serogroup virus from the species of family Ceratopogonidae as well as the first report of arbovirus isolation from biting midges in Europe.
Institute of Systematical and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno.
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Halouzka
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Pejcoch
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Hubálek
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Knoz
D000818:Animals; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D002141:Encephalitis Virus, California / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D051379:Mice; D014709:Vero Cells