Climate, ticks and disease
Climate, ticks and disease
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气候、蜱虫和疾病
DOI:
10.1079/9781789249637.0004
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发表时间:
2021
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Caminade C
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Caminade C
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are transmitted by an ectothermic arthropod or helminth to a human or an animal host. Examples affecting human and animal health are numerous. Malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes, still significantly impacts health and economics in Africa. Important arboviruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya are increasingly plaguing South America and South-east Asia. Lyme disease, a borreliosis transmitted by the bite of an infected ixodid tick to a mammalian host, is also on the rise in temperate regions of Europe and North America. In addition, soil helminths as well as other tick-borne, mosquito-borne and midge-borne pathogens affect livestock production worldwide. Diseases transmitted by sap-sucking insects, such as Xyllela fastidiosa, also threaten plant health and therefore agricul-tural production and food security. VBDs are climate sensitive, with rainfall and humidity providing suitable conditions for vector breeding sites. As ectothermic vectors do not regulate their internal temperature, air temperature directly affects their development rates, biting rates and the pathogen incubation period