A Review: Wolbachia-Based Population Replacement for Mosquito Control Shares Common Points with Genetically Modified Control Approaches

PS Yen, AB Failloux - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
The growing expansion of mosquito vectors has made mosquito-borne arboviral diseases a
global threat to public health, and the lack of licensed vaccines and treatments highlight the …

Zika virus: an emerging global health threat

R Mittal, D Nguyen, LH Debs, AP Patel, G Liu… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging healthcare threat. The presence of the mosquito Aedes
species across South and Central America in combination with complementary climates …

FACS: a geospatial agent-based simulator for analysing COVID-19 spread and public health measures on local regions

I Mahmood, H Arabnejad, D Suleimenova… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The recent Covid-19 outbreak has had a tremendous impact on the world, and many
countries are struggling to help incoming patients and at the same time, rapidly enact new …

Epidemiological and ecological determinants of Zika virus transmission in an urban setting

J Lourenço, M Maia de Lima, NR Faria, A Walker… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The Zika virus has emerged as a global public health concern. Its rapid geographic
expansion is attributed to the success of Aedes mosquito vectors, but local epidemiological …

Zika Virus Selectively Kills Aggressive Human Embryonal CNS Tumor Cells In Vitro and In Vivo

C Kaid, E Goulart, LC Caires-Júnior, BHS Araujo… - Cancer Research, 2018 - AACR
Zika virus (ZIKV) is largely known for causing brain abnormalities due to its ability to infect
neural progenitor stem cells during early development. Here, we show that ZIKV is also …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying protective health behaviors on Twitter: observational study of travel advisories and Zika virus

AR Daughton, MJ Paul - Journal of medical Internet research, 2019 - jmir.org
Background An estimated 3.9 billion individuals live in a location endemic for common
mosquito-borne diseases. The emergence of Zika virus in South America in 2015 marked …

Did Zika virus mutate to cause severe outbreaks?

SL Rossi, GD Ebel, C Shan, PY Shi, N Vasilakis - Trends in microbiology, 2018 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) has challenged the assumed knowledge regarding the pathobiology of
flaviviruses. Despite causing sporadic and mild disease in the 50 years since its discovery …

Islands as hotspots for emerging mosquito-borne viruses: a one-health perspective

C Mavian, M Dulcey, O Munoz, M Salemi, AY Vittor… - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
During the past ten years, an increasing number of arbovirus outbreaks have affected
tropical islands worldwide. We examined the available literature in peer-reviewed journals …

Zika virus: epidemiology, clinical aspects, diagnosis, and control of infection

A Karkhah, HR Nouri, M Javanian, V Koppolu… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging pathogen of huge public health significance to human
beings. Although majority of infections are benign with self-limiting symptoms, the recent …

Transcriptome profiling reveals pro-inflammatory cytokines and matrix metalloproteinase activation in Zika virus infected human umbilical vein endothelial cells

S Khaiboullina, T Uppal, K Kletenkov… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The deformities in the newborns infected with Zika virus (ZIKV) present a new potential
public health threat to the worldwide community. Although ZIKV infection is mainly …