Quantitative risk analysis of equine encephalosis introduction into the Netherlands
- Authors
- Mart?nez L?pez, Evelyn Pamela
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Equine encephalosis (EE) is a midge-borne viral disease of equines caused by EEV (Orbivirus, Reoviridae). EEV is closely related with African horse sickness virus (AHSV). EEV and AHSV share common vectors, Culicoides spp., and show similar transmission patterns. However, there is little information available on the EE epidemiology and it is unclear how the disease would spread into new free areas. For these reasons, the goals of this study were to provide insight in the risk posed by infected vectors and hosts on EEV introduction into the Netherlands, contribution of potential source areas (risk regions) and evaluation of the effectiveness of preventive measures (sanitary regimens).
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- EQUESTRIAN HORSES
EQUINES
TRANSMISSION PATTERN
VECTOR-BONE
CULICOIDES
AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess