Emerging and Reemerging Aedes-Transmitted Arbovirus Infections in the Region of the Americas: Implications for Health

Marcos A Espinal1, Jon K Andrus1, Barbara Jauregui1

  • 1Marcos A. Espinal is with Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC. Jon K. Andrus is with the Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health, Washington, DC, and the Division of Vaccines and Immunization, Center for Global Health, University of Colorado, Boulder. Barbara Jauregui is with the Department of Global Health, Milken Institute of Public Health, George Washington University. Stephen Hull Waterman is with the Dengue Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico. David Michael Morens is with the Office of the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Jose Ignacio Santos is with the Experimental Medicine Research Unit, Medical School, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. Olaf Horstick is with the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Lorraine Ayana Francis is with Communicable Diseases & Emergency Response, Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Daniel Olson is with the Pediatric Infectious Disease Department, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Epidemiology Department, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora.

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