title: Experimental infection studies of UK Culicoides species midges with bluetongue virus serotypes 8 and 9.
abstract: This paper describes a rapid, standardised method for testing the susceptibility to bluetongue virus (BTV) of northern Palaearctic Culicoides species midges that can be used to assess the competence of both field-caught and laboratory-infected midges. The method has been used to show that Culicoides scoticus can replicate btv serotype 8 and BTV serotype 9 strains to more than 3 log(10) TCID50/midge, the first evidence of the potential of this species to transmit BTV.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Animal Health (IAH) Pirbright, Ash Road, Woking, Surrey GU24 0BN, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McArthur
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Selby
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: A J Mordue
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Luntz
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Dallas
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tripet
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Mellor
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001820:Bluetongue virus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology*; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000145:classification / Q000821:virology*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000145:classification / Q000821:virology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D012703:Serotyping / Q000662:veterinary; D013045:Species Specificity; D006113:United Kingdom; D014779:Virus Replication