Abundance and distribution of sylvatic dengue virus vectors in three different land cover types in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

• Published in: Parasites & vectors Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 406
• Main Authors: Young, Katherine I., Mundis, Stephanie, Widen, Steven G., Wood, Thomas G., Tesh, Robert B., Cardosa, Jane, Vasilakis, Nikos, Perera, David, Hanley, Kathryn A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 31.08.2017; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Aedes; Aedes - virology; Aedes albopictus; Animal Distribution; Animals; Arbovirus; arboviruses; Borneo; Borneo - epidemiology; dengue; Dengue - epidemiology; Dengue - transmission; Dengue fever; Dengue virus; Dengue Virus - genetics; Dengue Virus - isolation & purification; Dengue Virus - physiology; Distribution; DNA barcoding; enzootic diseases; Forests; gender; genome; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Humans; Insect Vectors - virology; land cover; landscapes; Larva - virology; Malaysia; Malaysia - epidemiology; Mosquito; Primates - virology; Severe Dengue - epidemiology; Severe Dengue - transmission; Severe Dengue - virology; Spillover; Sylvatic; Borneo; Malaysia; Borneo; Spillover; Mosquito; Sylvatic; Arbovirus; Dengue virus; Land cover; Aedes

Mosquito-borne dengue virus (DENV) is maintained in a sylvatic, enzootic cycle of transmission between canopy-dwelling non-human primates and Aedes mosquitoes in Borneo. Sylvatic DENV can spill over into humans living in proximity to forest foci of transmission, in some cases resulting in severe den...