Recent sylvatic yellow fever virus transmission in Brazil: the news from an old disease

NIO Silva, L Sacchetto, IM De Rezende, GS Trindade… - Virology journal, 2020 - Springer
Yellow fever (YF) is an acute viral disease, affecting humans and non-human primates
(NHP), caused by the yellow fever virus (YFV). Despite the existence of a safe vaccine, YF …

Sylvatic cycles of arboviruses in non-human primates

MJ Valentine, CC Murdock, PJ Kelly - Parasites & vectors, 2019 - Springer
Arboviruses infecting people primarily exist in urban transmission cycles involving urban
mosquitoes in densely populated tropical regions. For dengue, chikungunya, Zika and …

The impact of deforestation, urbanization, and changing land use patterns on the ecology of mosquito and tick-borne diseases in Central America

DI Ortiz, M Piche-Ovares, LM Romero-Vega, J Wagman… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Central America is a region that possesses distinct ecological and
socioeconomic characteristics, making it increasingly vulnerable to vector-borne diseases …

Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health

AC Fagre, LE Cohen, EA Eskew, M Farrell… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has led to increased concern over transmission of pathogens
from humans to animals, and its potential to threaten conservation and public health. To …

Sampling to elucidate the dynamics of infections in reservoir hosts

RK Plowright, DJ Becker… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The risk of zoonotic spillover from reservoir hosts, such as wildlife or domestic livestock, to
people is shaped by the spatial and temporal distribution of infection in reservoir …

Biodiversity: the overlooked source of human health

Y Linhares, A Kaganski, C Agyare, IA Kurnaz… - Trends in Molecular …, 2023 - cell.com
Biodiversity is the measure of the variation of lifeforms in a given ecological system.
Biodiversity provides ecosystems with the robustness, stability, and resilience that sustains …

The vertical stratification of potential bridge vectors of mosquito-borne viruses in a central Amazonian forest bordering Manaus, Brazil

A Hendy, E Hernandez-Acosta, D Valério… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Latin America brought to the fore longstanding
concerns that forests bordering urban areas may provide a gateway for arbovirus spillback …

[HTML][HTML] Into the woods: Changes in mosquito community composition and presence of key vectors at increasing distances from the urban edge in urban forest parks in …

A Hendy, E Hernandez-Acosta, BA Chaves, NF Fé… - Acta tropica, 2020 - Elsevier
Mosquito-borne Zika virus (ZIKV) was recently introduced into the Americas and now has the
potential to spill back into a sylvatic cycle in the region, likely involving non-human primates …

An Introduction to the Callithrix Genus and Overview of Recent Advances in Marmoset Research

J Malukiewicz, V Boere, MAB De Oliveira, M D'arc… - ILAR …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We provide here a current overview of marmoset (Callithrix) evolution, hybridization, species
biology, basic/biomedical research, and conservation initiatives. Composed of 2 subgroups …

Detection of Zika and dengue viruses in wild-caught mosquitoes collected during field surveillance in an environmental protection area in São Paulo, Brazil

KM Barrio-Nuevo, MS Cunha, A Luchs, A Fernandes… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Species of the genus Flavivirus are widespread in Brazil and are a major public health
concern. The country's largest city, São Paulo, is in a highly urbanized area with a few forest …