Vaccination against Mosquito Borne Viral Infections: Current Status

vaccination against mosquito borne viral infections: current status

mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

Vaccination against mosquito borne viral infections: current status.

Mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. Vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for Japanese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. There are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and West Nile virus infection. In this article...

Current status of vaccination against African trypanosomiasis.

Anti-trypanosomiasis vaccination still remains the best theoretical option in the fight against a disease that is continuously hovering between its wildlife reservoir and its reservoir in man and livestock. While antigenic variation of the parasite surface coat has been considered the major obstacle in the development of a functional vaccine, recent research into the biology of B cells has indi...

Human Arthropod-Borne Viral Infections

1 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, University of Cagliari, Policlinico Monserrato, S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy 2 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Room Ee 1714a’s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 UMR190, Emergence des Pathologies Virales Aix-Marseille Universite, Institut de Reche...

The mosquito-borne infections of Europe

The number of endemic mosquito-borne infections in -Europe is substantial; some, such as West Nile virus give rise to periodic epidemic outbreaks while others cause only sporadic clinical cases of disease. Overall, there is a rising trend in the number of infections, especially of the arboviruses. Malaria which had been eradicated in Europe by 1975 following the initiation of the WHO eradicatio...

Experimental Study on Mucosal Vaccination of Animals against Viral Infections