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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 273-291Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.53.103106.093326
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viral hemorrhagic fevers; Aedes aegypti; arthropod-borne virus; epidemiology; ecology; temperature; rainfall
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The mosquito Aedes aegypti is more widely dispersed now than at any time in the past, placing billions of humans at risk of infection with one or more of the four dengue viruses. This review presents and discusses information on mosquito-dengue infection dynamics and describes the prominent role that temperature and rainfall play in controlling dengue viral transmission including discussions of the effect of interannual climate variations and the predicted effect of global warming. Complementary human determinants of dengue epidemiology include viremia titer, variation in viremic period, enhanced viremias, and threshold viremia. Topics covered include epidemiological phenomena such as traveling waves, the generation of genetic diversity of dengue viruses following virgin soil introductions and in hyperendemic settings, and evidence for and against viral virulence as a determinant of the severity of dengue infections. Also described is the crucial role of monotypic and heterotypic herd immunity in shaping dengue epidemic behavior.
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