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Bluetongue virus multiplied in the sandflyLutzomyia longipalpis after intrathoracic inoculation but not after oral ingestion of virus. The level of virus multiplication was lower than that observed in similar experiments with the North American vector of bluetongue,Culicoides variipennis. Inoculated sandflies did not transmit virus after 6 to 9 days incubation at 25° C.
It is unlikely thatL. longipalpis would be important in the maintenance of bluetongue virus in the wild.
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Jennings, M., Boorman, J. The susceptibility of the sandflyLutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva), diptera, phlebotomidae, to laboratory infection with bluetongue virus. Archives of Virology 64, 127–131 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01318016
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