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Table 4 Bluetongue viral RNA quantified by RT-qPCR (Cq) detected in blood used for oral infection of field-collected Culicoides and in the abdomen of individual engorged Culicoides immediately after feeding (Day 0), and species of analysed specimens identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry using head and thorax

From: Vector competence of pre-alpine Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for bluetongue virus serotypes 1, 4 and 8

Area

BTV-1

BTV-4

BTV-8

Blood

Culicoides Day 0

Species

Blood

Culicoides Day 0

Species

Blood

Culicoides Day 0

Species

Swiss Plateau (650 masl)

24.8

32.8

C. obsoletus

26.3

39.0

C. scoticus

26.6

35.4

C. obsoletus

27.8

36.4

C. scoticus

26.3

43.4

C. obsoletus

22.2

38.9

C. obsoletus

Pre-alpine I (≈ 1550 masl)

45.1

42.5

C. pulicaris

24.4

33.7

C. grisescens II

23.2

32.5

C. grisescens II

24.5

37.2

C. obsoletus

23.8

37.1

C. obsoletus

Pre-alpine II (2030 masl)

28.2

34.4

C. grisescens II

25.2

33.7

C. grisescens II

23.1

34.5

C. grisescens II

23.0

35.7

C. grisescens II

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