Culicoides

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Introduction

A genus of biting gnats or midges, vectors of several non pathogenic human filaria (Mansonella, Dipetalonema), Onchocerca in horses & cattle & several viral agents of domestic sheep & fowl.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995