El dengue es una enfermedad febril aguda causada por los arbovirus del género Flavivirus. Arbovirus un acrónimo en inglés que significa “Arthropod-borne virus” (virus transmitidos artrópodos) pero ya término aceptado también español para describir virus al hombre la picadura de vectores artrópodos hematófagos. Existen más 500 arbovirus, cuales alrededor 100 están relacionados con enfermedades h...

Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are maintained in nature by cycling between vertebrate hosts and haematophagous invertebrate vectors. These viruses are responsible for causing a significant public health burden throughout the world, with over 100 species having the capacity to cause human disease. Arbovirus outbreaks in previously naïve environments demonstrate the potential of these path...

The rapid succession of the pandemic of arbovirus diseases, such as dengue, West Nile fever, chikungunya, and Zika fever, has intensified research on these and other arbovirus diseases worldwide. Investigating the unique mode of vector-borne transmission requires a clear understanding of the roles of vertebrates. One major obstacle to this understanding is the ambiguity of the arbovirus definit...

Arbovirus surveillance methods are an integral part of integrated mosquito management programs, providing information on arboviral presence, location, and transmission potential. For many vector control agencies, entails collecting species from the field testing representative pools using commercially available immunoassays or real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction test kits....

During investigations into the outbreak of encephalitis in 1996 in the Kerala state in India, an arbovirus was isolated from a Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquito pool. It was characterized as a Japanese encephalitis and West Nile virus cross-reactive arbovirus by complement fixation test. A plaque reduction-neutralization test was performed using hyperimmune sera raised against the plaque-purifie...

INTRODUCTION Clinical symptoms of malaria and typhoid infections are virtually indistinguishable from those initially seen in many arbovirus infections. Here we describe arbovirus co-infection detected in 310 sera samples collected from febrile, clinically suspected malaria/typhoid patients in Borno State, Nigeria. METHODOLOGY Tested initially for Plasmodium falciparum by microscopy and for S...