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Table 4 RT-qPCR analyses targeting BTV-1 in different body regions of Culicoides parous females collected in May-July 2013 in Bari Sardo

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

4

2

24.37

> 40

26.15

27.20

C. newsteadi species A

4

1

28.13

26.70

C. newsteadi species B

4

1

> 40

26.20

C. obsoletus

2

1

> 40

25.47