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Potential of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to transmit yellow fever virus in urban areas in Central Africa
- Source :
- Emerging microbes & infections, Emerging microbes & infections, 2019, 8 (1), pp.1636-1641. ⟨10.1080/22221751.2019.1688097⟩, Emerging microbes & infections, Earliest : Springer-Nature ; Latest : Taylor & Francis, 2019, 8 (1), pp.1636-1641. ⟨10.1080/22221751.2019.1688097⟩, Emerging Microbes & Infections
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2019.
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Abstract
- International audience; Yellow Fever (YF) remains a major public health issue in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, despite the availability of an effective vaccine. In Africa, most YF outbreaks are reported in West Africa. However, urban outbreaks occurred in 2016 in both Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and imported cases were reported in Chinese workers coming back from Africa. In Central Africa, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo host a high proportion of non-vaccinated populations increasing the risk of urban outbreaks. The main vector is Aedes aegypti and possibly, Aedes albopictus, both being anthropophilic and domestic mosquitoes. Here, we provide evidence that both Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo are able to transmit Yellow fever virus (YFV) with higher rates of infection, dissemination, and transmission for Ae. aegypti. We conclude that the potential of both Aedes species to transmit YFV could increase the risk of urban YF transmission and urge public health authorities to intensify their efforts to control domestic vectors, and extend vaccine coverage to prevent major YFV outbreak.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Aedes albopictus
Epidemiology
030106 microbiology
Immunology
wa_395
Mosquito Vectors
Aedes aegypti
Microbiology
Article
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
Aedes
law
Virology
Yellow Fever
Drug Discovery
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Humans
qx_525
Africa, Central
Socioeconomics
yellow fever virus
vector competence
Central Africa
biology
Public health
Yellow fever
Outbreak
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
wc_530
3. Good health
030104 developmental biology
Infectious Diseases
Geography
Transmission (mechanics)
Vector (epidemiology)
[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology
Female
Parasitology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22221751
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging microbes & infections, Emerging microbes & infections, 2019, 8 (1), pp.1636-1641. ⟨10.1080/22221751.2019.1688097⟩, Emerging microbes & infections, Earliest : Springer-Nature ; Latest : Taylor & Francis, 2019, 8 (1), pp.1636-1641. ⟨10.1080/22221751.2019.1688097⟩, Emerging Microbes & Infections
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b7f8dab6ce65f993288e9dd943f0c32d