Chikungunya virus is widespread throughout the tropics, where it causes recurrent
outbreaks of chikungunya fever. In recent years, outbreaks have afflicted populations in East …

Climate change has already impacted the transmission of a wide range of vector-borne
diseases in Europe, and it will continue to do so in the coming decades. Climate change has …

Re-emergence of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-transmitted pathogen, is of serious public
health concern. In the past 15 years, after decades of infrequent, sporadic outbreaks, the …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus that is emerging as a
global threat because of the highly debilitating nature of the associated disease and …

Lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) technology is a paper-based, point-of-care strip biosensor
designed to detect a specific analyte in a given sample. This type of assay is now of great …

Numerous recent studies have illuminated global distributions of human cases of dengue
and other mosquito-transmitted diseases, yet the potential distributions of key vector species …

During the early part of the 21st century, an unprecedented change in the status of vector-
borne disease in Europe has occurred. Invasive mosquitoes have become widely …

Among the invasive mosquitoes registered all over the world, Aedes species are particularly
frequent and important. As several of them are potential vectors of disease, they present …

Slave trading of Africans to the Americas, during the 16th to the 19th century was
responsible for the first recorded emergence in the New World of two arthropod-borne …

Background Since 2003, the tropical arthritogenic chikungunya (CHIK) virus has become an
increasingly medical and economic burden in affected areas as it can often result in long …