The importance of vector control for the control and elimination of vector-borne diseases

AL Wilson, O Courtenay, LA Kelly-Hope… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) such as malaria, dengue, and leishmaniasis exert a huge
burden of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly affecting the poorest of the poor …

[HTML][HTML] La pandemia de Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Situación actual e implicaciones para México

X Escudero, J Guarner, A Galindo-Fraga… - … de cardiología de …, 2020 - scielo.org.mx
La pandemia del Coronavirus (COVID-19) es una de las más devastadoras de este siglo.
Originada en China en diciembre de 2019 y causada por el virus SARS-CoV-2, en menos …

The coronavirus 2019-nCoV epidemic: Is hindsight 20/20?

M Malta, AW Rimoin, SA Strathdee - EClinicalMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
The newly identified coronavirus, COVID-19, was first reported in Wuhan, China on
December 31, 2019. In one month, reported cases outnumber those from the Severe Acute …

Understanding the role of disease knowledge and risk perception in shaping preventive behavior for selected vector-borne diseases in Guyana

C Aerts, M Revilla, L Duval, K Paaijmans… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Individual behavior, particularly choices about prevention, plays a key role in
infection transmission of vector-borne diseases (VBDs). Since the actual risk of infection is …

Zika, dengue and chikungunya population prevalence in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, and the importance of seroprevalence studies to estimate the real number of …

ARS Périssé, R Souza-Santos, R Duarte, F Santos… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In the last 40 years, Latin America countries, including Brazil, have suffered from the
emergence and reemergence of arboviruses, first Dengue (DENV) and recently Zika (ZIKV) …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging arboviruses in the urbanized Amazon rainforest

R Lowe, S Lee, RM Lana, CT Codeço, MC Castro… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
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Role of inflammation in virus pathogenesis during pregnancy

A Chudnovets, J Liu, H Narasimhan, Y Liu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viral infections during pregnancy lead to a spectrum of maternal and fetal outcomes, ranging
from asymptomatic disease to more critical conditions presenting with severe maternal …

Congenital Zika virus infection: a review with emphasis on the spectrum of brain abnormalities

L Vhp, MM Aragão, RS Pinho, AN Hazin… - Current Neurology and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review In 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus
(ZIKV) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern following a cluster of …

Zika epidemic and microcephaly in Brazil: Challenges for access to health care and promotion in three epidemic areas

PC Peiter, RS Pereira, MC Nunes Moreira… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Since 2015 Brazil has experienced the social repercussions of the Zika virus epidemic, thus
raising a debate about: difficulties of diagnosis; healthcare access for children with Zika …

Uncertainty in times of medical emergency: Knowledge gaps and structural ignorance during the Brazilian Zika crisis

AH Kelly, J Lezaun, I Löwy, GC Matta… - Social Science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Uncertainty was a defining feature of the Brazilian Zika crisis of 2015–2016. The cluster of
cases of neonatal microcephaly detected in the country's northeast in the second half of …