Human to human transmission of arthropod-borne pathogens

Byron E Martina; Luisa Barzon; Gorben P Pijlman; José de la Fuente; Annapaola Rizzoli; Linda J Wammes; Willem Takken; Ronald P van Rij; Anna Papa

doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2016.11.005

Human to human transmission of arthropod-borne pathogens

Curr Opin Virol. 2017 Feb:22:13-21. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.11.005. Epub 2016 Dec 2.

Authors

Byron E Martina¹, Luisa Barzon², Gorben P Pijlman³, José de la Fuente⁴, Annapaola Rizzoli⁵, Linda J Wammes⁶, Willem Takken⁷, Ronald P van Rij⁸, Anna Papa⁹

Affiliations

¹ Viroscience Laboratory, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Artemis One Health Research Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
³ Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁴ SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
⁵ Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige (Trento), Italy.
⁶ Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁹ Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address: annap@med.auth.gr.

PMID: 27915056
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.11.005

Abstract

Human-to-human (H2H) transmitted arthropod-borne pathogens are a growing burden worldwide, with malaria and dengue being the most common mosquito-borne H2H transmitted diseases. The ability of vectors to get infected by humans during a blood meal to further propel an epidemic depends on complex interactions between pathogens, vectors and humans, in which human interventions and demographic and environmental conditions play a significant role. Herein, we discuss the distal and proximal drivers affecting H2H vector-borne pathogen transmission and identify knowledge gaps and future perspectives.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Animals
Arthropod Vectors*
Bacterial Infections / transmission*
Disease Transmission, Infectious*
Humans
Parasitic Diseases / transmission*
Virus Diseases / transmission*