Monitoring of Putative Vectors of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 8, Germany
Bernd Hoffmann, Burkhard Bauer, Christian Bauer, Hans-Joachim Bätza, Martin Beer, Peter-Henning Clausen, Martin Geier, Jörn M. Gethmann, Ellen Kiel, Gabriele Liebisch, Arndt Liebisch, Heinz Mehlhorn, Günter A. Schaub, Doreen Werner, and Franz J. Conraths
Author affiliations: Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (B. Hoffmann, M. Beer); Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany (B. Bauer, P.-H. Clausen); Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany (C. Bauer); Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Bonn, Germany (H.-J. Bätza); University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (M. Geier); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Wusterhausen, Germany (J.M. Gethmann, F.J. Conraths); Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany (E. Kiel); Zecklab, Burgwedel, Germany (G. Liebisch, A. Liebisch); Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (H. Mehlhorn); Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (G.A. Schaub); Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e. V, Müncheberg, Germany (D. Werner)
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Figure 1. Culicoides spp. monitoring area, 150-km zone restricted because of the occurrence of bluetongue disease in Germany as of January 2007 (blue border), and geographic positions of 89 black light traps (red dots).
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