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1 online resource (xxi, 483 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.
The third volume in the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) Biology of Animal Infections Series, Bluetongue discusses one of the most economically important diseases of domesticated livestock. Affecting primarily sheep particularly the improved mutton and wool breeds, it is now endemic in Africa, India, the Middle and Far East, Australia and the Americas, and over the last six years has caused a series of outbreaks throughout the Mediterranean region and central Europe. Bluetongue represent a paradigm not only for the other orbiviruses (such as African horse sickness virus, which shares the same vector species) but also for other insect transmitted diseases, including those of humans. * The only single definitive work that provides both historical and up to date data on the disease * Describes the latest developments in epidemiological modelling, molecular epidemiology and vaccine development, as well as explaining the current global epidemiology of the disease * Outlines the importance and possible mechanisms of overwintering, and the impact of global warming on the vectors and virus distribution.
Introduction -- The history of bluetongue -- Bluetongue virus, other orbiviruses and other reoviruses : their relationships and taxonomy -- Bluetongue virus replication and assembly -- Bluetongue virus : cell biology -- The structure of bluetongue virus core proteins -- Molecular epidemiology studies of bluetongue virus -- Bluetongue in the Indian subcontinent -- Current status of bluetongue virus in the Americas -- Bluetongue viruses in Australia and East Asia -- Bluetongue in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin -- Bluetongue virus in the mammalian host and the induced immune response -- Clinical signs and pathology -- Bluetongue virus in the insect host -- Rates of bluetongue virus transmission between Culicoides sonorensis and sheep -- Bluetongue virus and climate change -- Bluetongue virus diagnosis -- Bluetongue virus vaccines past and present -- Bluetongue control strategies -- Conclusions
edited by Philip S. Mellor, Matthew Baylis, Peter P.C. Mertens.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2009
113118:113206 Elsevier Science & Technology