Uncovering the burden of dengue in Africa: considerations on magnitude, misdiagnosis, and ancestry

EM Gainor, E Harris, AD LaBeaud - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dengue is a re-emerging neglected disease of major public health importance. This review
highlights important considerations for dengue disease in Africa, including epidemiology …

Worldwide impacts of landscape anthropization on mosquito abundance and diversity: A meta‐analysis

A Perrin, O Glaizot, P Christe - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, the emergence and resurgence of vector‐borne diseases have been well
documented worldwide, especially in tropical regions where protection and defense tools for …

Bionomic aspects of dengue vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus at domestic settings in urban, suburban and rural areas in Gampaha District, Western …

R Dalpadado, D Amarasinghe, N Gunathilaka… - Parasites & …, 2022 - Springer
Background The lack of information on behavioural patterns of Aedes aegypti and Aedes
albopictus has become a significant limitation in vector control and disease management …

Human–mosquito contact: a missing link in our understanding of mosquito-borne disease transmission dynamics

P Thongsripong, JM Hyman, DD Kapan… - Annals of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Despite the critical role that contact between hosts and vectors, through vector bites, plays in
driving vector-borne disease (VBD) transmission, transmission risk is primarily studied …

Non-target effects of chemical malaria vector control on other biological and mechanical infectious disease vectors

NB Jobe, S Huijben, KP Paaijmans - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2023 - thelancet.com
Public health insecticides play a crucial role in malaria control and elimination programmes.
Many other arthropods, including mechanical and biological vectors of infectious diseases …

Aedes-borne disease outbreaks in West Africa: A call for enhanced surveillance

AG Buchwald, MH Hayden, SK Dadzie, SH Paull… - Acta tropica, 2020 - Elsevier
Arboviruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes are a growing global concern; however, there
remain large gaps in surveillance of both arboviruses and their vectors in West Africa. We …

Water quality characteristics of breeding habitats in relation to the density of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in domestic settings in Gampaha district of Sri Lanka

R Dalpadado, D Amarasinghe, N Gunathilaka - Acta Tropica, 2022 - Elsevier
In spite of the unavailability of measures to target dengue control in human populations, the
promising way of combating the disease is by controlling vector mosquito larvae and their …

Ecological, social, and other environmental determinants of dengue vector abundance in urban and rural areas of Northeastern Thailand

MS Rahman, T Ekalaksananan, S Zafar… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aedes aegypti is the main vector of dengue globally. The variables that influence the
abundance of dengue vectors are numerous and complex. This has generated a need to …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous circulation of DENV, CHIKV, ZIKV and SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil: an inconvenient truth

SJR da Silva, JJF de Magalhães, L Pena - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has prompted the mobilization of a network of public health
laboratories to diagnose COVID-19 patients, trace contacts and identify hot-spot areas for …

Another dengue fever outbreak in Eastern Ethiopia—An emerging public health threat

MA Gutu, A Bekele, Y Seid, Y Mohammed… - PLoS neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Dengue Fever (DF) is a viral disease primarily transmitted by Aedes (Ae.)
aegypti mosquitoes. Outbreaks in Eastern Ethiopia were reported during 2014–2016. In May …