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Turkish Journal of Biology

Authors

NURDAN ÖZER

DOI

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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.

Keywords

Vector-borne Diseases, Malaria, Yellow fever, Dengue, Plague, Lyme disease, Typhus, Arboviruses, West Nile virus

First Page

125

Last Page

135

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