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SUBMITTER: Guzzetta G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4909274 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guzzetta Giorgio G Montarsi Fabrizio F Baldacchino Frédéric Alexandre FA Metz Markus M Capelli Gioia G Rizzoli Annapaola A Pugliese Andrea A Rosà Roberto R Poletti Piero P Merler Stefano S
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20160615 6
The rapid invasion and spread of Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) within new continents and climatic ranges has created favorable conditions for the emergence of tropical arboviral diseases in the invaded areas. We used mosquito abundance data from 2014 collected across ten sites in northern Italy to calibrate a population model for Aedes albopictus and estimate the potential of imported human cases of chikungunya or dengue to generate the condition for their autochthonous transmission in the abse ...[more]