Transmission cycles, host range, evolution and emergence of arboviral disease

By Scott Weaver, A. Barrett. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004

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Many pandemics have been attributed to the ability of some RNA viruses to change their host range to include humans. Here, we review the mechanisms of disease emergence that are related to the host-range specificity of selected mosquito-borne alphaviruses and flaviviruses. We discuss viruses of medical importance, including Venezuelan equine and Japanese encephalitis viruses, dengue viruses and West Nile viruses.

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Emerging pathogens: the epidemiology and evolution of species jumps (2005, background): “In support of this, both emerging and long-recognised zoonotic RNA arboviruses tend to be poorly transmissible between humans [24, 25] , although experimental evidence for such constraints is inconclusive [25] .”
• Genome Microevolution of Chikungunya Viruses Causing the Indian Ocean Outbreak (2006, background): “Whether the epidemic strain results from the evolution of an enzootic strain, as previously described for eastern equine encephalitis virus [30], cannot be excluded.”
• Tick-Borne Rickettsioses around the World: Emerging Diseases Challenging Old Concepts (2005, background): “in viral molecular genetics, phylogenetic studies, genome sequencing, computational techniques have recently provided new tools starting to give some answers on pathogenicity, interactions with vectors, and host and/or vector association specificity and to resolve taxonomy problems (360).”
• The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses (2009, background): “Direct adaptation to a new host species also seems to have been central to the emergence of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE), where a single positively selected amino acid change—position 213 of the E2 envelope glycoprotein— appears to be responsible for the adaptation of rodent (reservoir”
• ECOLOGY OF WEST NILE VIRUS TRANSMISSION AND ITS IMPACT ON BIRDS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE (2007, background): “There have been several recent reviews of the ecology of WNV transmission (Komar 2003, Marra et al. 2004, Weaver and Barrett 2004, Hayes et al. 2005), and a large body of literature is available on a closely related virus, the St. Louis encephalitis virus (Monath 1980).”