Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and urbanization. Examples of urban vectors of dengue and filariasis
Rodhain, F.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique et de Ses Filiales 76(3): 250-255
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 6627544 Document Number: 209978
Once located in time and place the beginning of urbanization process, the mechanisms of adaptation to urban ecosystem and of dissemination by human conveyances are studied for two domestic mosquitoes: Aedes aegypti and Culex pipiens fatigans (= quinque-fasciatus). Then epidemiological consequences are discussed. Ae. aegypti pullulation constitutes a potential risk of urban yellow fever outbreak and the main factor of dengue haemorrhagic fever appearance; the increase of C. p. fatigans populations involves a slow rise of bancroftian filariasis. Future prospects for these diseases are discussed with regards to data concerning recent evolution of their own epidemiological features.