Chikungunya fever is an acute febrile illness caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is transmitted to humans by Aedes mosquitoes. Although chikungunya fever is rarely …
A Troncoso - Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2016 - Elsevier
The Aedes aegypti mosquito which transmits Zika virus (as well as dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever) represents a high risk for global transmission. This virus comes from Africa …
JM Scavuzzo, F Trucco, M Espinosa, CB Tauro, M Abril… - Acta tropica, 2018 - Elsevier
Mosquitoes are vectors of many human diseases. In particular, Aedes ægypti (Linnaeus) is the main vector for Chikungunya, Dengue, and Zika viruses in Latin America and it …
The Americas are presently experiencing the most serious known outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV). Here, we present a novel set of analyses using environmental characteristics, vector …
AH Azil, M Li, CR Williams - Asia Pacific Journal of Public …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Vector surveillance is a cornerstone of dengue management yet there is a diversity of surveillance programs evident internationally. Such diversity is described in this review to …
SU Khan, NH Ogden, AA Fazil… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are mosquito vectors of more than 22 arboviruses that infect humans. Objectives: Our objective was to develop regional ecological …
Background Schistosomiasis is a snail-borne disease endemic in sub-Saharan Africa transmitted by freshwater snails. The distribution of schistosomiasis coincides with that of the …
This paper describes a social media system to prevent dengue in Sri Lanka and potentially in the rest of the South and Southeast Asia regions. The system integrates three concepts of …