Abstract Background Sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are medically important vectors of
human and veterinary disease-causing agents. Among these, the genus Leishmania …

The Bulgarian dipteran fauna has been studied for 160 years (Löw 1862). Since then, a vast
material of faunistic data concerning the territory of Bulgaria has been accumulated. During …

Autochthonous Dirofilaria repens infections have been found in dogs and other carnivores in
most European countries. In the same countries, reports of human dirofilariasis are …

Abstract Background Investigations of Culicoides fauna, including inventories, were carried
out in Morocco at different periods after the country had faced major bluetongue and African …

Culicoides biting midges are well known biological vectors of several arboviruses causing
more than 100 veterinary and medical diseases worldwide. In Algeria, bluetongue virus …

Culicoides biting midges are small dipterous insects (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) which are
known to be vectors of arboviruses, bacteria, protozoan and helminth parasites that can …

We investigated the Culicoides fauna in Turkey during the years 2016-2019 in the process
of entomological surveillance for arboviral diseases. The entomological survey was …

Abstract Background The Culicoides fauna of Algeria has been historically investigated,
leading to the description of many new species by Kieffer in the 1920s, Clastrier in the 1950s …

Kosovo has previously seen two bluetongue (BT) epizootics, each caused by a different
serotype, BTV‐9 in 2001 and BTV‐4 in 2014. Since 2014, no clinical cases of BT have been …

Abstract Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) act as mechanical and
biological vectors of arboviruses and are crucial in the global spread of these viruses. This …