[PDF] Top 20 Control of Vector-Borne Human Parasitic Diseases

... Vector-borne diseases (VBD) transmitted by arthropods are responsible for over 1 billion cases and 1 million deaths every year, corresponding to at least 17% of all infectious diseases ... See full document

... consequences of climate change on human health depend on the duration, frequency and intensity of exposure to situations and settings, as well as on the vulnerability and susceptibility of ... See full document

... role of domestic dogs as reservoirs of Bartonella ...for human infections because a similar disease spectrum develops in dogs ...evidence of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae ... See full document

... causes of disabling fever syndromes world- ...cases of West Nile disease were reported in the US. The majority of these (21,277) were neuroinvasive disease, a statistic that reflects the serious ... See full document

... history of malaria is closely interwined with that of ...ancestors of Homo sapiens already suffered from tertian or quartan fevers since their intermittent and seasonal characteris- tics in temperate ... See full document

... list of currently recommended vector control interventions was generated from WHO guide- lines for dengue control (S1 Table) ...sustained control, (2) offer best epidemic mitigation, or ... See full document

... influx of DENV via infected people who travelled to dengue endemic countries, ...expansion of dengue vectors in Nepal after 2006 may have been further supported by the end of the decade-long armed ... See full document

... agents of the cat scratch disease, is frequently reported in cats, which are therefore regarded as a major reservoir for human infection ...most of the cats PCR- positive to Bartonella ...prevalence ... See full document

... The diseases of the ‘Leishmaniasis’ group are caused by intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leish- ...number of species and subspecies of Leishmania, grouped according to ... See full document

... reservoirs of emerging diseases or food security, and not as fellow inhabitants of a changing environment with shared risks (Taylor et ...source of emerging human pathogens and the main ... See full document

... contemporary control strategies have made great progress to control malaria and other neglected tropical diseases, the incidence of other dis- eases has been on the ...on vector ... See full document

... study of crepuscular and night-biting mosquitoes was conducted at remote settlements along the Padauiri River, middle Negro River, state of Amazonas, ...with human bait and a CDC-light trap on three ... See full document

... implementation of guidelines for the surveillance of arthropod vectors of disease with impact on public ...and Control (ECDC) guidelines for the surveillance of invasive mosquitoes in ... See full document

... the vector and host populations ...magnitude of these thresholds will depend on the opposing actions of positive- and negative density dependent processes acting on parasite infection ...the ... See full document

... risk of encountering unfavorable conditions, thereby decreasing the extinction probability of genetic lineages in unpredictable ...evolution of vector-borne diseases in ... See full document

... requires vector individuals to live long enough to get infected and to infect a host ...importance of vector longevity in the sink is undoubtedly underestimated here since we did not account for any ... See full document

... some of the world’s most important diseases, disproportionately affecting poor com- munities and representing a major public health ...Biological control techniques aimed at suppressing mosquito ... See full document

... size of populations. As a matter of fact, in vivo and in vitro approaches that involve small samples usually face this ...all of them presented the same results. Therefore, the differences in ... See full document

... amount of 170 million people worldwide, yet despite a lack of previous records of the dis- ease, we can estimate via the shape of phyloge- netic trees, possible times when it entered the hu- ... See full document

... Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by WHO in February 2016 (Gulland 2016), due to the conse- quences on newborn babies with microcephaly (da Silva & Gao ...mosquito borne epidemic is also in the ... See full document