Abortive infections are a major health challenge affecting productive and reproductive
performance of sheep and goats. However, there is no comprehensive summary on the …

Small ruminant production is one of the main sources of meat in Algeria and plays a vital
role in the country's food security. Algeria's small ruminant industry has the potential to …

Objective The status of bluetongue disease, vectors for transmission of the disease and the
serotypes involved are not clearly known in Ethiopia. This sero-epidemiological study was …

Introduction Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are vectors of arboviral
pathogens that primarily affect livestock represented by Schmallenberg virus (SBV) …

Background Bluetongue (BT), a vector‐borne disease of wild and domestic ruminants, is
responsible for severe economic losses in flocks. To reduce this impact, a surveillance and …

Culicoides biting midges are well known biological vectors of several arboviruses causing
more than 100 veterinary and medical diseases worldwide. In Algeria, bluetongue virus …

Abstract The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) defined transboundary animal
diseases (TADs) as those that are of significant economic, trade, and food security …

Bluetongue is a serious vector-borne viral disease that infects wild and domestic ruminants.
The causative virus is transmitted by midges of the genus Culicoides, which consists of at …

To effectively control and eradicate PPR, the comprehensive understanding of risk factors
associated with PPR exposure is vital. Hence, this study investigated socioeconomic and …

Biting flies are hematophagous dipterans belonging to various taxonomic groups, such as
the Hippoboscidae, Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae, Tabanidae, Muscidae, and Psychodidae …