Turkish Journal of Biology
Abstract
Vector-borne infectious diseases are emerging or resurging as a result of changes in public health policy, demographic and societal changes, insecticide and drug resistance, shift in emphasis from prevention to emergency response, genetic changes in pathogens in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Climate changes also can influence the emergence and reemergence of these diseases which are malaria, dengue, yellow fever, plague, filariasis, louse-borne typhus, lyme disease, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis and viral diseases. West Nile virus is just the latest example of this type of invasion by exotic virus. This paper will provide an overview of the distribution, reasons of emergence or reemergence of the important vector-borne diseases throughout the world.
DOI
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Keywords
Vector-borne Diseases, Malaria, Yellow fever, Dengue, Plague, Lyme disease, Typhus, Arboviruses, West Nile virus
First Page
125
Last Page
135
Recommended Citation
ÖZER, NURDAN (2005) "Emerging Vector-borne Diseases in a Changing Environment," Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 29: No. 3, Article 1. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol29/iss3/1
