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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Dispatch

Bluetongue Virus Serotype 3 and Schmallenberg Virus in Culicoides Biting Midges, Western Germany, 2023

Anja Voigt, Helge Kampen, Elisa Heuser, Sophie Zeiske, Bernd Hoffmann, Dirk Höper, Mark Holsteg, Franziska Sick, Sophia Ziegler, Kerstin Wernike, Martin BeerComments to Author , and Doreen Werner
Author affiliations: Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Muencheberg, Germany (A. Voigt, D. Werner); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald–Insel Riems, Germany (H. Kampen, E. Heuser, S. Zeiske, B. Hoffmann, D. Höper, F. Sick, S. Ziegler, K. Wernike, M. Beer); Chamber of Agriculture for North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Sassendorf, Germany (M. Holsteg)

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Sampling locations and infection sites in study of BTV-3 and SBV in Culicoides biting midges, western Germany, 2023. A) Overview map of Germany and the Netherlands showing North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony study areas. B) BTV-3 cases in the Netherlands (blue dots) as of September 8, 2023, and locations of UV light traps (white dots) along the border between Germany and the Netherlands. C) BTV-3 infections in ruminants (blue dots) reported to the animal disease reporting system in Germany as of April 18, 2024, and geographic assignment of farms with biting midge pools that tested positive for BTV-3 and SBV RNA (yellow dot) and those with pools only positive for SBV RNA (red dots). BTV-3, bluetongue virus serotype 3; SBV, Schmallenberg virus.

Figure. Sampling locations and infection sites in study of BTV-3 and SBV in Culicoides biting midges, western Germany, 2023. A) Overview map of Germany and the Netherlands showing North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony study areas. B) BTV-3 cases in the Netherlands (blue dots) as of September 8, 2023, and locations of UV light traps (white dots) along the border between Germany and the Netherlands. C) BTV-3 infections in ruminants (blue dots) reported to the animal disease reporting system in Germany as of April 18, 2024, and geographic assignment of farms with biting midge pools that tested positive for BTV-3 and SBV RNA (yellow dot) and those with pools only positive for SBV RNA (red dots). BTV-3, bluetongue virus serotype 3; SBV, Schmallenberg virus.

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