| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Authors: | R. P. Kitching, Mellor P. S. |
| Journal: | Research in Veterinary Science |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pagination: | 255 - 258 |
| Date Published: | 1986 |
| ISBN Number: | 0034-5288 |
| Keywords: | animals, Ceratopogonidae/microbiology, Diptera, goats, Insect vectors, Lice/microbiology, Mallophaga, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, sheep, Sheep Diseases/microbiology/transmission |
| Abstract: | Capripoxvirus was transmitted between sheep using Stomoxys calcitrans as a vector. Attempts to transmit capripoxvirus between sheep and between goats using biting lice (Mallophaga species), sucking lice (Damalinia species), sheep head flies (Hydrotaea irritans) and midges (Culicoides nubeculosus) were unsuccessful, although capripoxvirus was isolated from sheep head flies that had previously fed on infected sheep. |
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