Bluetongue in Italy: Part I.

@article{Calistri2004BluetongueII,
  title={Bluetongue in Italy: Part I.},
  author={Paolo Calistri and Armando Giovannini and Annamaria Conte and Donatella Nannini and Ugo Santucci and Cristiana Patta and Sandro Rolesu and Vincenzo Caporale},
  journal={Veterinaria italiana},
  year={2004},
  volume={40 3},
  pages={
          243-51
        }
}

• Paolo Calistri, Armando Giovannini, +5 authors Vincenzo Caporale
• Published in Veterinaria italiana 2004

The eastern focus of the current outbreak of bluetongue (BT) in the Mediterranean Basin commenced in late 1998, infecting Turkey and some of the eastern islands of Greece. In the summer of 1999 it moved to continental Greece and for the first time to Bulgaria. By the late summer of 2000, BT spread progressively through Greece and to the Balkan states. The BT virus (BTV) serotypes involved were BTV-4, BTV-9 and BTV-16. The west-central focus of the outbreak, involving BTV-2, appeared in Tunisia… CONTINUE READING

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