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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...

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Other Authors: Mellor, P. S. (Philip S.), Baylis, Matthew, D.Phil, Mertens, Peter P. C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Biology of animal infections.
Subjects:
Bluetongue.
Bluetongue virus.
Bluetongue > Epidemiology.
Bluetongue > epidemiology.
Sheep Diseases.
Sheep.
Sheep > virology.
Cattle Diseases.
Cattle.
Cattle > virology.
Insect Vectors.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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