Measuring the global burden of chikungunya and Zika viruses: A systematic review

CJ Puntasecca, CH King… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Throughout the last decade, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) infections
have spread globally, causing a spectrum of disease that ranges from self-limited febrile …

[HTML][HTML] Reviewing estimates of the basic reproduction number for dengue, Zika and chikungunya across global climate zones

Y Liu, K Lillepold, JC Semenza, Y Tozan… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Globally, dengue, Zika virus, and chikungunya are important viral
mosquito-borne diseases that infect millions of people annually. Their geographic range …

Successive blood meals enhance virus dissemination within mosquitoes and increase transmission potential

PM Armstrong, HY Ehrlich, T Magalhaes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The recent Zika virus (ZIKV) and chikungunya virus epidemics highlight the explosive nature
of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) transmitted by Aedes spp. mosquitoes,. Vector …

Projecting the end of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America: a modelling analysis

KM O'Reilly, R Lowe, WJ Edmunds, P Mayaud… - BMC medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region in
2013, with serious implications for population health in the region. In 2016, the World Health …

Global dynamics of a reaction–diffusion model of Zika virus transmission with seasonality

F Li, XQ Zhao - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a periodic reaction–diffusion model of Zika virus with seasonal
and spatial heterogeneous structure in host and vector population. We introduce the basic …

Trade-offs between individual and ensemble forecasts of an emerging infectious disease

RJ Oidtman, E Omodei, MUG Kraemer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Probabilistic forecasts play an indispensable role in answering questions about the spread
of newly emerged pathogens. However, uncertainties about the epidemiology of emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Practical unidentifiability of a simple vector-borne disease model: Implications for parameter estimation and intervention assessment

YH Kao, MC Eisenberg - Epidemics, 2018 - Elsevier
Mathematical modeling has an extensive history in vector-borne disease epidemiology, and
is increasingly used for prediction, intervention design, and understanding mechanisms …

Impact of weather seasonality and sexual transmission on the spread of Zika fever

A Dénes, MA Ibrahim, L Oluoch, M Tekeli, T Tekeli - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
We establish a compartmental model to study the transmission of Zika virus disease
including spread through sexual contacts and the role of asymptomatic carriers. To …

Leveraging multiple data types to estimate the size of the Zika epidemic in the Americas

SM Moore, RJ Oidtman, KJ Soda, AS Siraj… - PLOS Neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Several hundred thousand Zika cases have been reported across the Americas since 2015.
Incidence of infection was likely much higher, however, due to a high frequency of …

Traveling wave solutions for Zika transmission model with nonlocal diffusion

R Zhang, H Zhao - Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
The problem of traveling wave solutions (TWS) for a nonlocal diffusive Zika transmission
model with bilinear incidence was studied. More specifically, the system admits a nontrivial …