This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

Skip Navigation skip menu and banner
University of Wyoming
West Nile Virus in the Western U.S.
 

   In collaboration with the USDA’s Arthropod-borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory (ABADRL) which is based in Laramie, we recently completed studies on the efficiency with which biting midges transmit vesicular stomatitis, a disease that affects cattle and horses. ABADRL in one of the few research centers that maintains colonies of biting midges such as C. variipennis for transmission studies.

Investigator: D. O’Toole
Black Bird

Publications

O'Toole D, Perez de Leon AA, Hearne C, et al: 2003, Papular dermatitis induced in guinea pigs by the biting midge Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). J Vet Diagn Invest. 15(1):67-71.