Autor(es): Hubálek Zdenek

Resumo: The number of mosquito-borne viruses ('moboviruses') occurring in Europe since the twentieth century now st-s at ten; they belong to three families-Togaviridae (Sindbis, Chikungunya), Flaviviridae (West Nile, Usutu, Dengue), - Bunyaviridae (Batai, Tahyna, Snowshoe hare, Inkoo, Lednice). Several of them play a definite role in human or animal pathology (Sindbis, Chikungunya, Dengue, West Nile, Tahyna). Mobovirus outbreaks are strictly determined by the presence -/or import of particular competent vectors of the disease. Ecological variables affect moboviruses considerably; the main factors are population density of mosquito vectors - their vertebrate hosts, intense summer precipitations or floods, summer temperatures - drought, - presence of appropriate habitats, e.g., wetl-s, small water pools, or intravillan sewage systems. A surveillance for moboviruses - the diseases they cause in Europe is recommendable, because the cases may often pass unnoticed or misdiagnosed not only in free-living vertebrates but also in domestic animals - even in humans.

Imprenta: Parasitology Research, v. 103, supl 1, p. S29-S43, 2008

Identificador do objeto digital: 10.1007/s00436-008-1064-7

Descritores: Chikungunya virus - Cytopathology ; Chikungunya virus - Flaviviridae ; Chikungunya virus - Pathogenesis ; Chikungunya virus - Viral infections ; Chikungunya Virus - Virus ; Chikungunya virus - Transmission ; Chikungunya virus - Dengue ; Chikungunya virus - Epidemiology ; Chikungunya virus - Public health

Data de publicação: 2008

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