The invasive species Aedes albopictus is present in 60% of Brazilian municipalities,
including at the interfaces between urban settings and forests that are zoonotic arbovirus …

Background Yellow fever (YF) is an arboviral disease which is endemic to Brazil due to a
sylvatic transmission cycle maintained by infected mosquito vectors, non-human primate …

Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has dispersed in the Americas since 2013, and its
range of distribution has overlapped large forested areas. Herein, we assess vector …

Many (re) emerging infectious diseases in humans arise from pathogen spillover from
wildlife or livestock, and accurately predicting pathogen spillover is an important public …

BACKGROUND Southeast Brazil has recently experienced a Yellow Fever virus (YFV)
outbreak where the mosquito Haemagogus leucocelaenus was a primary vector. Climatic …

Background Yellow fever virus (YFV) is an arbovirus that, despite the existence of a safe and
effective vaccine, continues to cause outbreaks of varying dimensions in the Americas and …

Abstract The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH) is well-known in ecology providing
an explanation for the role of disturbance in the coexistence of climax and colonist species …

The golden lion tamarin is an endangered primate endemic to Brazil's Atlantic Forest.
Centuries of deforestation reduced numbers to a few hundred individuals in isolated forest …

INTRODUCTION: Environmental modifications caused by human activities have led to
changes in mosquito vector populations, and sylvatic species have adapted to breeding in …

Background The reintroduction of sylvatic yellow fever in the state of São Paulo after about
six decades was confirmed in the Northwestern region in 2000, where in 2008 there also …