Vector competence of Aedes aegypti, Culex tarsalis, and Culex quinquefasciatus from California for Zika virus. [PDF]
, 2018 Zika virus (ZIKV) has emerged since 2013 as a significant global human health threat following outbreaks in the Pacific Islands and rapid spread throughout South and Central America.
Barker, Christopher M +9 more
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Vector competence of Florida mosquitoes for chikungunya virus [PDF]
Journal of Vector Ecology, 2010 Chikungunya virus (CHIKV, family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus) has re-emerged and caused human epidemics in Europe, Africa, Asia, and India in recent years (Bessaud et al. 2006, Powers and Logue 2007, Peyrefitte et al. 2008, Leo et al. 2009). The debilitating disease caused by CHIKV results in fever, skin rash, and arthritis-like pain in small ...
Sheri L. Anderson +2 more
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Two-Host, Two-Vector Basic Reproduction Ratio (R-0) for Bluetongue [PDF]
, 2013 Mathematical formulations for the basic reproduction ratio (R (0)) exist for several vector-borne diseases. Generally, these are based on models of one-host, one-vector systems or two-host, one-vector systems. For many vector borne diseases, however, two
Baylis, Matthew +2 more
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Microbiome influences on insect host vector competence [PDF]
Trends in Parasitology, 2011 Insect symbioses lack the complexity and diversity of those associated with higher eukaryotic hosts. Symbiotic microbiomes are beneficial to their insect hosts in many ways, including dietary supplementation, tolerance to environmental perturbations and maintenance and/or enhancement of host immune system homeostasis.
Serap Aksoy, Brian L. Weiss
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Pathogens, 2023 Temperature is a well-known effector of several transmission factors of mosquito-borne viruses, including within mosquito dynamics. These dynamics are often characterized by vector competence and the extrinsic incubation period (EIP).
Rebecca C. Christofferson +2 more
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Parallelisms and Contrasts in the Diverse Ecologies of the Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi Complexes of Bacteria in the Far Western United States. [PDF]
, 2016 Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi are two tick-borne bacteria that cause disease in people and animals. For each of these bacteria, there is a complex of closely related genospecies and/or strains that are genetically distinct and have ...
Foley, Janet, Stephenson, Nicole
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Salud Pública de México, 2020 Objective. To gain a better understanding of the Zika virus (ZIKV) vector transmission in Mexico, we determined the vector competence of a local population of Ae. aegypti (Acapulco, Guerrero) for a strain of ZIKV isolated from a Mexican febrile patient.
Nayeli Sánchez-Casiano +7 more
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Entomological assessment of dengue virus transmission risk in three urban areas of Kenya.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019 Urbanization is one of the major drivers of dengue epidemics globally. In Kenya, an intriguing pattern of urban dengue virus epidemics has been documented in which recurrent epidemics are reported from the coastal city of Mombasa, whereas no outbreaks ...
Sheila B Agha +4 more
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The neovolcanic axis is a barrier to gene flow among Aedes aegypti populations in Mexico that differ in vector competence for Dengue 2 virus. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 Aedes aegypti is the main mosquito vector of the four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV). Previous population genetic and vector competence studies have demonstrated substantial genetic structure and major differences in the ability to transmit dengue ...
Saul Lozano-Fuentes +6 more
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Hypoxia-induced tracheal elasticity in vector beetle facilitates the loading of pinewood nematode
eLife, 2023 Many pathogens rely on their insect vectors for transmission. Such pathogens are under selection to improve vector competence for their transmission by employing various tissue or cellular responses of vectors.
Xuan Tang +5 more
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