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.
Halouzka
J
J
Institute of Systematical and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno.
Pejcoch
M
M
Hubálek
Z
Z
Knoz
J
J
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