Addressing vulnerability, building resilience: community-based adaptation to vector-borne diseases in the context of global change

KL Bardosh, SJ Ryan, K Ebi, S Welburn… - Infectious diseases of …, 2017 - Springer
Background The threat of a rapidly changing planet–of coupled social, environmental and
climatic change–pose new conceptual and practical challenges in responding to vector …

Doenças sensíveis ao clima no Brasil e no mundo: revisão sistemática

TCM Sousa, F Amancio, SS Hacon… - … de Salud Pública, 2018 - SciELO Public Health
Objetivos. Fazer um levantamento da literatura existente acerca das doenças sensíveis ao
clima (DSC) e dos impactos das alterações climáticas sobre a saúde. Método. A revisão …

Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America

MR Springborn, JA Weill, KR Lips… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Biodiversity in ecosystems plays an important role in supporting human welfare, including
regulating the transmission of infectious diseases. Many of these services are not fully …

Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Niño

LF Chaves, TW Chuang, M Sasa, JM Gutiérrez - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Snakebites are environmental and occupational health hazards that mainly affect rural
populations worldwide. The ectothermic nature of snakes raises the issue of how climate …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of weather and weather variability on mosquito abundance and infection with West Nile virus in Harris County, Texas, USA

KC Poh, LF Chaves, M Reyna-Nava… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Early warning systems for vector-borne diseases (VBDs) prediction are an ecological
application where data from the interface of several environmental components can be used …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis and sand fly fluctuations are associated with El Niño in Panamá

LF Chaves, JE Calzada, A Valderrama… - PLoS neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected tropical vector-borne disease.
Sand fly vectors (SF) and Leishmania spp parasites are sensitive to changes in weather …

Declining prevalence of disease vectors under climate change

LE Escobar, D Romero-Alvarez, R Leon… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
More than half of the world population is at risk of vector-borne diseases including dengue
fever, chikungunya, zika, yellow fever, leishmaniasis, chagas disease, and malaria, with …

Climatic fluctuations and malaria transmission dynamics, prior to elimination, in Guna Yala, República de Panamá

LA Hurtado, JE Calzada, CA Rigg, M Castillo… - Malaria Journal, 2018 - Springer
Background Malaria has historically been entrenched in indigenous populations of the
República de Panamá. This scenario occurs despite the fact that successful methods for …

Study of the epidemiological behavior of malaria in the Darien Region, Panama. 2015–2017

L Cáceres Carrera, C Victoria, JL Ramirez, C Jackman… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Malaria is endemic in Darién and an assessment of the different factors
affecting its epidemiology is crucial for the development of adequate strategies of …

Comparison of PvLAP5 and Pvs25 qRT-PCR assays for the detection of Plasmodium vivax gametocytes in field samples preserved at ambient temperature from …

N Obaldía, I Barahona, J Lasso, M Avila… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background As the elimination of malaria in Mesoamerica progresses, detection of
Plasmodium vivax using light microscopy (LM) becomes more difficult. Highly sensitive …