A New Threat Looming over the Mediterranean Basin: Emergence of Viral Diseases Transmitted by Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gasperi, Giuliano ^a   Bellini, Romeo ^b   Malacrida, Anna R ^a   Crisanti, Andrea ^c,d   Dottori, Michele ^e   Aksoy, Serap ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Medical and Veterinary Entomology   (Italy)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARBOVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84866935740     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001836     Document Type: Editorial

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