Chikungunya Virus Transmission Potential by Local Aedes Mosquitoes in the Americas and Europe

Vega-Rúa, Anubis; Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira, Ricardo; Mousson, Laurence; Vazeille, Marie; Fuchs, Sappho; Yébakima, André; Gustave, Joël; Girod, Romain; Dusfour, Isabelle; Leparc-Goffart, Isabelle; L. Vanlandingham, Dana; S. Huang, Yan‐Jang; Philip Lounibos, L.; Mohamed Ali, Souand; Nougaırède, Antoine; de Lamballerie, Xavier; Failloux, Anna‐Bella

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003780

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Chikungunya Virus Transmission Potential by Local Aedes Mosquitoes in the Americas and Europe

Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases • May 20, 2015

Authors:

Anubis Vega-Rúa

Ricardo Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira

Laurence Mousson

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), mainly transmitted in urban areas by the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, constitutes a major public health problem. In late 2013, CHIKV emerged on Saint-Martin Island in the Caribbean and spread throughout the region reaching more than 40 countri...

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Aedes albopictus

Chikungunya

Aedes aegypti

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