Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus mainly spread by Culex
mosquitoes that currently has a geographic distribution across most of Southeast Asia and …

The impact of human activities on the principles and processes governing the arrival,
establishment and spread of exotic pathogens is illustrated by vector-borne diseases such …

A specific concept of strain was developed in order to classify the BTV serotypes ever
reported in Europe based on their properties of animal health impact: the genotype …

Vector-borne animal diseases pose a continuous and substantial threat to livestock
economies around the globe. Increasing international travel, the globalisation of trade, and …

Background Animal trade plays an important role for the spread of infectious diseases in
livestock populations. The central question of this work is how infectious diseases can …

Since 1996, autochthonous cases of emerging leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania
(Mundinia) martiniquensis and Leishmania (Mundinia) orientalis have been more frequently …

The invasion of multiple strains of the midge-borne bluetongue virus into southern Europe
since the late 1990s provides a rare example of a clear impact of climate change on a vector …

The inability to distinguish between species can be a serious problem in groups responsible
for pathogen transmission. Culicoides biting midges transmit many pathogenic agents …

Bluetongue is a non-contagious disease of domestic and wild ruminants caused by a virus
within the Orbivirus genus of the family Reoviridae and transmitted by Culicoides biting …

This review provides an overview of current and potential new diagnostic techniques against
bluetongue virus (BTV), an Orbivirus transmitted by arthropods that affects ruminants …