From: Role of different Culicoides vectors (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in bluetongue virus transmission and overwintering in Sardinia (Italy)
Species
No. of pools
No. of positive pools
qPCR Ct values
Head
Thorax
C. imicola
4
1
> 40
24.25
C. scoticus
2
24.37
26.15
27.20
C. newsteadi species A
28.13
26.70
C. newsteadi species B
26.20
C. obsoletus
25.47