The inoculation of viruses into mosquito bite sites is an important and common stage
of arbovirus infections.
In Senegal, the entomological and virological surveillance program
of arboviruses since 1972 showed an enzootic circulation of ZIKV [20].
Not exact matches
This year Oneida County was one
of four targeted counties which worked in conjunction with the New York State Department
of Health (NYSDOH to prevent
arboviruses in their communities.
A year old colt in the town
of Vernon had to be euthanized after it was observed to be suffering neurological symptoms that were later determined to be the result
of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)
arbovirus, Oneida County Health Department officials said today.
For Pedro Vasconcelos, director
of the National Reference Laboratory for
Arboviruses in Brazil at the Evandro Chagas Institute, there is no time to lose.
Its flexible framework can be readily applied to other US states and adapted for risk assessments
of other emerging
arboviruses, including Chikungunya, Dengue, and Yellow fever.»
«This research team's dedication and previous research on dengue and other
arboviruses enabled them to quickly develop this model for Zika virus, an important first step to enable testing
of candidate vaccine and therapeutics,» said Stephen Higgs, PhD, the president
of the American Society
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Yellow fever is caused by an
arbovirus of the family Flaviviridae, and is one
of the smallest RNA viruses isolated.
albopictus in the United States and delineate areas with risk for the transmission
of these introduced
arboviruses,» the authors wrote.
albopictus in Panama is very related to European populations, this could have implications for the introduction
of emergent
arboviruses like chikungunya and Zika from Europe into Panama.
«Moreover, topical repellents should not be regarded as a monotherapy against
arboviruses; other methods
of bite - avoidance should also be employed, and methods
of delivering insecticides such as IRS should be explored further, along with continuing investigation
of spatial insecticides with both repellent and killing properties.
The specificity
of the rRT - PCR assay allows its use for differential diagnosis
of arboviral infections in Africa and Asia where ZIKV co-circulates with other
arboviruses such as Dengue, Chikungunya and yellow fever viruses [22].
Mosquitoes samples were collected during a routine surveillance for
arbovirus in Kedougou, Southeastern Senegal from May to December 2011 as described previously [27] and pooled by species into groups
of up 50 individuals.
This assay is a useful tool for detection
of ZIKV infection in regions where a number
of other clinically indistinguishable
arboviruses like dengue or chikungunya co-circulate.
Like others
arbovirus (YFV, DENV, CHIKV) in this Kedougou region, ZIKV were found frequently at the end
of the rainy season between September and December [2, 35], characterized by the existence
of a very diversified mosquito fauna and an old population
of vectors that have taken several blood meals and thus are more likely to be infected by contact with viremic hosts.
arbovirus any
of various viruses transmitted by arthropods and including the causative agents
of dengue fever, yellow fever, and some encephalitis
Increasing temperatures may also increase the risk
of livestock diseases by (i) supporting the dispersal
of insects, e.g., Culicoides imicola, that are main vectors
of several
arboviruses, e.g., bluetongue (BT) and African horse sickness (AHS); (ii) enhancing the survival
of viruses from one year to the next; (iii) improving conditions for new insect vectors that are now limited by colder temperatures (Wittmann and Baylis, 2000; Mellor and Wittmann, 2002; Colebrook and Wall, 2004; Gould et al., 2006).