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Aedes Aegypti And Dengue In The Philippines: Centering History And Critiquing Ecological And Public Health Approaches To Mosquito-Borne Disease In The Greater Asian Pacific, Maria R. Pettis
Pomona Senior Theses
The global incidence of dengue has increase 30-fold over the past 50 years in the western or Asian Pacific, this region is also a contemporary epicenter for resource extraction and ecological destabilization. Dengue is addition to yellow fever, chikungunya and most recently zika virus, are transmitted by the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti- a domesticated mosquito adept at breeding in artificial household containers and within homes. The history of the domestication and global distribution of Aedes aegypti is intrinsically linked to European expansion into and among tropical worlds. Contemporary population genetics research suggest the westward expansion of the mosquito vector …
Zika Virus- Emergence, Evolution, Pathology, Diagnosis, And Control: Current Global Scenario And Future Perspectives- A Comprehensive Review, Raj K. Singh, Kuldeep Dhama, Yashpal S. Malik, Muthannan A. Ramakrishnan, Kumaragurubaran Karthik, Sunil K. Joshi
Zika Virus- Emergence, Evolution, Pathology, Diagnosis, And Control: Current Global Scenario And Future Perspectives- A Comprehensive Review, Raj K. Singh, Kuldeep Dhama, Yashpal S. Malik, Muthannan A. Ramakrishnan, Kumaragurubaran Karthik, Sunil K. Joshi
Bioelectrics Publications
This review converses the Zika virus which has attained global concern due to its rapid pandemic potential and impact on humans. Though Zika virus was first isolated in 1947, till the recent large-scale outbreak which occurred in Micronesia, in 2007, the virus was placed into the innocuous pathogen category. The World Health Organization on 1 February 2016 declared it as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.' Of the note, American as well as Pacific Island strains/isolates is relatively closer to Asian lineage strains. The African and American strains share more than 87.5% and 95% homologies with Asian strains/isolates, respectively. …