title: Urbanization and geographic expansion of zoonotic arboviral diseases: mechanisms and potential strategies for prevention.
abstract: Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) mainly infect people via direct spillover from enzootic cycles. However, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever viruses have repeatedly initiated urban transmission cycles involving human amplification and peridomestic mosquito vectors to cause major epidemics. Here, I review these urban emergences and potential strategies for their prevention and control.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Center for Tropical Diseases, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. sweaver@utmb.edu
authors.forename: Scott C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Weaver
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001102:Arbovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D019371:Topography, Medical; D014507:Urbanization / Q000639:trends*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control
keywords: arbovirus; mosquito; prevention of transmission; urban
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