BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

blue tongue virus (BTV) (Blue Tongue Disease - Causative Organism)

Suggested Literature

blue tongue virus (BTV) may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

blue tongue virus (BTV) is associated with:

		Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates	infects		DEFRA: Animal Health and Welfare: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/index.htm
		Bos taurus (domestic) - Domestic Cattle (Artiodactyla: Bovidae)	infects		DEFRA: Animal Health and Welfare: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/index.htm [cattle are the main mammalian reservoir]
		Ovis aries - Domestic And Feral Sheep (Artiodactyla: Bovidae)	infects		DEFRA: Animal Health and Welfare: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/index.htm [sheep are the most severely affected]

Associated with blue tongue virus (BTV):

is spread by imago

Culicoides - a genus of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

DEFRA: Animal Health and Welfare: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/index.htm

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