The importance of vector control for the control and elimination of vector-borne diseases

AL Wilson, O Courtenay, LA Kelly-Hope… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) such as malaria, dengue, and leishmaniasis exert a huge
burden of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly affecting the poorest of the poor …

Emerging and re-emerging vector-borne infectious diseases and the challenges for control: a review

B Chala, F Hamde - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Vector-borne emerging and re-emerging diseases pose considerable public health problem
worldwide. Some of these diseases are emerging and/or re-emerging at increasing rates …

[HTML][HTML] La pandemia de Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Situación actual e implicaciones para México

X Escudero, J Guarner, A Galindo-Fraga… - … de cardiología de …, 2020 - scielo.org.mx
La pandemia del Coronavirus (COVID-19) es una de las más devastadoras de este siglo.
Originada en China en diciembre de 2019 y causada por el virus SARS-CoV-2, en menos …

Overcoming the 'tyranny of the urgent': integrating gender into disease outbreak preparedness and response

J Smith - Gender & Development, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article contributes to discussions on the gender dimensions of disease outbreaks, and
preparedness policies and responses, by providing a multi-level analysis of gender-related …

Antiviral peptides as promising therapeutic drugs

LCP Vilas Boas, ML Campos, RLA Berlanda… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
While scientific advances have led to large-scale production and widespread distribution of
vaccines and antiviral drugs, viruses still remain a major cause of human diseases today …

Decision tree based ensemble machine learning model for the prediction of Zika virus T-cell epitopes as potential vaccine candidates

SNH Bukhari, J Webber, A Mehbodniya - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Zika fever is an infectious disease caused by the Zika virus (ZIKV). The disease is claiming
millions of lives worldwide, primarily in develo** countries. In addition to vector control …

Climate change, thermal anomalies, and the recent progression of dengue in Brazil

C Barcellos, V Matos, RM Lana, R Lowe - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Dengue is rapidly expanding its transmission area across Brazil and much of South
America. In this study, data-mining techniques were used to identify climatic and …

Impact of preexisting dengue immunity on Zika virus emergence in a dengue endemic region

I Rodriguez-Barraquer, F Costa, EJM Nascimento… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The clinical outcomes associated with Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas have been well
documented, but other aspects of the pandemic, such as attack rates and risk factors, are …

Field validation of the performance of paper-based tests for the detection of the Zika and chikungunya viruses in serum samples

M Karlikow, SJR da Silva, Y Guo, S Cicek… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
In low-resource settings, resilience to infectious disease outbreaks can be hindered by
limited access to diagnostic tests. Here we report the results of double-blinded studies of the …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances in Zika vaccine development

Y Wang, L Ling, Z Zhang, A Marin-Lopez - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging arthropod-borne flavivirus, was first isolated in Uganda in
1947 from monkeys and first detected in humans in Nigeria in 1952; it has been associated …