Assessment of the risk of malaria re-introduction in the Maremma plain (Central Italy) using a multi-factorial approach

Autor: Anna Maria Fausto, Angelo Tamburro, Luciano Toma, Giorgio Pontuale, Irene Raffaelli, Roberto Costantini, Gilbert Le Goff, Isabelle Thiery, Antonio Crisci, Annie Landier, Maurizio Cocchi, Francesco Severini, Daniela Boccolini, Luca Angeli, Roberto Vallorani, Gianni Messeri, Roberto Romi, Marco Di Luca
Přispěvatelé: Unit of Vector Borne Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Laboratory of Monitoring and Environmental Modelling for Sustainable Development Sesto Fiorentino, Institute of Biometeorology, National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Operative Unit of Environmental Zoology, Centre de Production et Infection des Anophèles (plateforme) - Center for the Production and Infection of Anopheles (platform) (CEPIA), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Diversity, ecology, evolution & Adaptation of arthropod vectors (MIVEGEC-DEEVA), Evolution des Systèmes Vectoriels (ESV), Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), IBAF Department, Università degli studi della Tuscia [Viterbo], Istituto Superiore di Sanita [Rome], Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Università della Tuscia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
Předmět:
Plasmodium falciparum
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
lcsh:RC955-962
030231 tropical medicine
Biology
Risk Assessment
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Re introduction
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Malaria transmission
[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases
Anopheles
medicine
Animals
Humans
Climate change
lcsh:RC109-216
Anopheles labranchiae
Experimental infection
Malaria vector
Socioeconomics
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Residual anophelism
Ecology
Research
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Vectorial capacity
Malaria
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
Italy
13. Climate action
Vector (epidemiology)
Vivax malaria
Female
Parasitology
Plasmodium vivax
Mosquito-borne diseases
Zdroj: Malaria Journal
Malaria Journal, 2012, 11 (1), pp.98. ⟨10.1186/1475-2875-11-98⟩
Malaria Journal, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 98 (2012)
Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2012, 11 (1), pp.98. ⟨10.1186/1475-2875-11-98⟩
Malaria journal (Online) (2012). doi:10.1186/1475-2875-11-98
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Romi R., Boccolini D., Vallorani R., Severini F., Toma L., Cocchi M., Tamburro A., Messeri G., Crisci A., Angeli L., Costantini R., Raffaelli I., Pontuale G., Thiery I., Landier A., Le Goff G., Fausto A.M., Di Luca M./titolo:Assessment of the risk of malaria re-introduction in the Maremma Plain (Central Italy) using a multi-factorial approach/doi:10.1186%2F1475-2875-11-98/rivista:Malaria journal (Online)/anno:2012/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume
ISSN: 1475-2875
Popis: Keywords: Mosquito-borne diseases, Residual anophelism, Anopheles labranchiae, Vectorial capacity, Climatechange, Plasmodium falciparum, Experimental infectionBackgroundIn recent years, the increase in globalization [1], the risein the average temperature of the earth together with anincreasing frequency and intensity of extreme weatherevents, as storms, floods and droughts [2,3], and theenvironmental changes induced by human activities [4],have raised the concern about the possible introductionor reintroduction of Vector Borne Diseases in Countrieswhere these were absent or eradicated [5]. These con-siderations, coupled with the recent spread of somemosquito vector borne diseases in Europe [6,7] and theincreasing number of imported malaria cases recordedin the Continent [8] have renewed interest in the possi-ble reintroduction of malaria in Southern Europe [7-9],particularly in the countries facing the Western Medi-terranean Basin, where potential Anopheline vectors arestill present [10-13]. Moreover, in recent years auto-chthonous malaria cases have been sporadically reportedin Italy, France, Spain and Greece [14-20].In 2005, a five-year study was implemented in Italy, aswell as in other South European countries, with the aim toassess the status of the local potential malaria vectors andthe possible re-introduction of malaria transmission[21-25]. In Italy, the selected study area was the Maremmaplain, a region that was hyperendemic for malaria until60 years ago [26-28] and that more recently was recog-nized as the major “at risk” area for the malaria reintro-duction into Italy [14,29,30].In Maremma, after the malaria eradication campaign(1947-1951), Anopheles labranchiae, the main endophilicvector of the Anopheles maculipennis complex was dra-matically reduced in abundance. However, in subsequentyears, the species has progressively re-colonized most ofthe area coming back to substantial densities [31-33].This was mainly due to the introduction of intensive ricecultivation in the early 1970s. Since then, Maremma hasbeen subjected to continuous entomological surveillancethat was intensified after1997, when an autochthonousPlasmodium vivax malaria case, transmitted byAn. lab-ranchiae, occurred in the Province of Grosseto [14]. Thestudies carried out in the area since eradication, providesa database that allowed a follow-up the history of malariaand its vectors in Maremma over the past 60 years. Start-ing from the findings of the most recent entomologicaland environmental studies [23,34], the present study waschosen to evaluate the malariogenic potential of the areausing a multifactorial approach.Methods
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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