title: Bluetongue, Schmallenberg - what is next? Culicoides-borne viral diseases in the 21st Century.
abstract: In the past decade, two pathogens transmitted by Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus, have caused serious economic losses to the European livestock industry, most notably affecting sheep and cattle. These outbreaks of arboviral disease have highlighted large knowledge gaps on the biology and ecology of indigenous Culicoides species. With these research gaps in mind, and as a means of assessing what potential disease outbreaks to expect in the future, an international workshop was held in May 2013 at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. It brought together research groups from Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and The Netherlands, with diverse backgrounds in vector ecology, epidemiology, entomology, virology, animal health, modelling, and genetics. Here, we report on the key findings of this workshop.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands. sander.koenraadt@wur.nl.
authors.forename: Constantianus Jm
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Koenraadt
authors.forename: Thomas
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authors.lastname: Balenghien
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.forename: Els
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ducheyne
authors.forename: Armin Rw
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Elbers
authors.forename: Mark
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authors.lastname: Fife
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garros
authors.forename: Adolfo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ibáñez-Justicia
authors.forename: Helge
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kampen
authors.forename: Richard Jm
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kormelink
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Losson
authors.forename: Wim Hm
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: van der Poel
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Regge
authors.forename: Piet A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: van Rijn
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schaffner
authors.forename: Marianne M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Sloet van Oldruitenborgh-Oosterbaan
authors.forename: Willem
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authors.lastname: Takken
authors.forename: Doreen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Werner
authors.forename: Frederik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Seelig
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001819:Bluetongue / Q000635:transmission*; D001820:Bluetongue virus / Q000502:physiology*; D002044:Bunyaviridae Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D002417:Cattle / Q000821:virology; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000821:virology*; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000662:veterinary; D004493:Education; D005060:Europe; D016851:Orthobunyavirus / Q000502:physiology*; D012756:Sheep / Q000821:virology