Bluetongue (BT) disease is a noncontagious, arthropod-borne viral disease affecting ruminants, [1] primarily sheep and other domestic or wild ruminants, including cattle, yaks, [2] goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries, and antelope. [3]

Bluetongue is a viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants transmitted by certain Culicoides midges. Clinical signs caused by vasculitis are more commonly observed in sheep than in other ruminants. Both vaccination and vector control are critical to control bluetongue.

2024年2月26日 · Bluetongue is an insect-borne, viral disease that affects sheep, cattle, and other ruminants. The bluetongue virus is transmitted by biting midges (Culicoides spp.); it is not contagious from animal to animal. Infections range from mild to …

2022年5月4日 · Bluetongue (BT) is an infectious, non-contagious and arthropod transmitted viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants, caused by BT virus (BTV) that belongs to the genus Orbivirus and family Reoviridae (Mertens et al. 1989; Patel and Roy 2014; Ranjan et al. 2015).

Bluetongue (BT) is a non-contagious, viral disease affecting domestic and wild ruminants (primarily sheep and including cattle, goats, buffalo, antelope, deer, elk and camels) that is transmitted by insects, particularly biting midges of the Culicoides species.

Bluetongue is caused by bluetongue virus, a member of the epizootic hemorrhagic disease serogroup in the genus Orbivirus and family Sedoreoviridae. Twenty-four ‘historical’ serotypes are known to cause this disease, each containing multiple strains that can differ in virulence.

Bluetongue is a non-contagious, viral disease spread by biting insects. It afects species of ruminants, particularly sheep. Bluetongue causes many diferent symptoms in afected animals, including ulcers, sores, painful hooves, lameness and reproductive problems.

2024年12月30日 · Blue Tongue (BT) is a infectious non-contagious arthropod borne viral disease of sheep, cattle, goat and other wild ruminants, clinically characterized by fever, oculonasal discharge, hyperaemia and edema of lips and lameness.

Bluetongue virus (BTV) is an orbivirus that infects both domestic and wild ruminants and is transmitted by Culicoides spp. biting midges (Price and Hardy 1954, Borden et al. 1971, Matthews 1982).

2014年8月26日 · Bluetongue is a notifiable disease caused by infection with bluetongue virus. Bluetongue virus is mainly spread by biting midges. Bluetongue virus affects: Rarely, bluetongue can...