Chikungunya: A risk for Mediterranean countries?

Autor: Charles Jeannin, Anna-Bella Failloux, Marie Vazeille, Francis Schaffner, Estelle Martin
Přispěvatelé: Génétique Moléculaire des Bunyavirus, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Entente interdépartementale pour la démoustication du littoral méditerranéen, EID-Méditerranée, The Pasteur Institute in Paris and the French ministry in charge of health, Direction Générale de la Santé, supported this work., Institut Pasteur [Paris]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
Předmět:
Mediterranean climate
Aedes albopictus
MESH: Insect Vectors/physiology
Veterinary (miscellaneous)
viruses
MESH: Insect Vectors/virology
030231 tropical medicine
medicine.disease_cause
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Aedes
medicine
Animals
Humans
MESH: Animals
Chikungunya
MESH: Alphavirus Infections/transmission
MESH: Aedes/physiology
030304 developmental biology
MESH: Alphavirus Infections/virology
0303 health sciences
MESH: Humans
biology
MESH: Aedes/virology
Ecology
Alphavirus Infections
fungi
Outbreak
MESH: Italy
MESH: Chikungunya virus
biology.organism_classification
Insect Vectors
Europe
MESH: France
Infectious Diseases
[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology
Italy
Insect Science
Tiger mosquito
Parasitology
France
Chikungunya virus
Vector competence
Zdroj: Acta Tropica
Acta Tropica, 2008, 105 (2), pp.200-202. ⟨10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.09.009⟩
Acta Tropica, Elsevier, 2008, 105 (2), pp.200-202. ⟨10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.09.009⟩
ISSN: 0001-706X
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.09.009⟩
Popis: International audience; The Italian outbreak of the 2007 summer and the active spreading of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus in southern Europe, raise the possibility of local transmission of chikungunya (CHIK) in Mediterranean countries. Established in at least 12 countries in southern Europe since the end of the 1970s and in southern France since 2004, Ae. albopictus, is invading the French Mediterranean coast from East to West. To determine the possibility of an outbreak of CHIK in southern France, we provide an assessment of vector competence towards CHIK virus of different mosquito species, including Ae. albopictus, collected in 2006 in Camargue and the "Côte d'Azur" (Alpes Maritimes). In the laboratory, Ae. albopictus showed a high susceptibility to CHIK infection (77.1%) comparable to that observed for specimens collected in March 2006 in La Reunion Island. Hence, Ae. albopictus from southern France has the potential to serve as a vector based on its susceptibility to CHIK infection. Its presence in a tourist area such as the "Côte d'Azur" should be considered as a potential threat for the introduction of CHIK virus as in Italy where the initial case was probably a traveller coming back from an endemic zone.
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