Spread of the Invasive Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the Black Sea Region Increases Risk of Chikungunya, Dengue, and Zika Outbreaks in Europe

Muhammet M Akiner; Berna Demirci; Giorgi Babuadze; Vincent Robert; Francis Schaffner

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004664

Spread of the Invasive Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the Black Sea Region Increases Risk of Chikungunya, Dengue, and Zika Outbreaks in Europe

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Apr 26;10(4):e0004664. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004664. eCollection 2016 Apr.

Authors

Muhammet M Akiner¹, Berna Demirci², Giorgi Babuadze³, Vincent Robert⁴, Francis Schaffner⁵

Affiliations

¹ Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, Fener, Rize, Turkey.
² Kafkas University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Kars, Turkey.
³ Division of Virology and Molecular Biology, National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁴ Research Unit MIVEGEC, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
⁵ Avia-GIS, Zoersel, Belgium.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aedes / growth & development*
Animals
Black Sea
Chikungunya Fever / epidemiology*
Chikungunya Fever / transmission*
Dengue / epidemiology*
Dengue / transmission*
Disease Outbreaks
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Europe / epidemiology
Humans
Risk Assessment
Zika Virus Infection / epidemiology*
Zika Virus Infection / transmission*

Grants and funding

This work was carried out under the VectorNet framework contract OC/EFSA/AHAW/2013/02-FWC1 funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC). The funders contributed to the study design, but had no role in data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.