Rethinking Japanese Encephalitis Virus Transmission: A Framework for Implicating Host and Vector Species

Jennifer S Lord; Emily S Gurley; Juliet R C Pulliam

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004074

Rethinking Japanese Encephalitis Virus Transmission: A Framework for Implicating Host and Vector Species

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Dec 10;9(12):e0004074. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004074. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Jennifer S Lord^{1

2}, Emily S Gurley³, Juliet R C Pulliam^{2

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
² Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
³ Centre for Communicable Diseases, icddr,b, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
⁵ Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Animals
Culicidae / virology*
Disease Reservoirs*
Disease Transmission, Infectious*
Encephalitis, Japanese / transmission*
Encephalitis, Japanese / veterinary*
Humans
Insect Vectors*
Zoonoses / transmission*

Grants and funding

At the time of writing this manuscript JSL was a postdoctoral research associate in the Pulliam Lab at the University of Florida. We would like to acknowledge the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida for funding fieldwork, which contributed to the ideas within this manuscript. We would also like to acknowledge funding for a Japanese encephalitis workshop held in October 2012 by the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program. icddr,b is thankful to the Governments of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden and the UK for providing core support. JRCP and ESG are supported by the Research and Policy on Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) Program of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health and Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.