Catarrhal Fever or Bluetongue disease
In French
Contents
Sheep on five continents ♦ Bluetongue basics ♦ Observations of livestock farmers ♦ Veterinarian’s diagnosis of a suspicion ♦ From required notification ♦ ...to prescribed measures ♦ Cost of the disease ♦ Economic impact on production.
Short questions / Brief responses.
Ultrastructure of the BT virus .
Historical context ♦ 24 serotypes of BTV ♦ Midges: hematophagous vectors ♦ Virus multiplication inside hosts ♦ Survival of the virus outside of hosts ♦ Global distribution of serotypes ♦ Case of Corsica ♦ Emergence in Northern Europe ♦ From a vaccine to mass vaccination.
© Cirad, 2009
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