Aedes albopictus arrives in Lisbon: an emerging public health threat

Teresa Nazareth; Gonçalo Seixas; José Lourenço; Paulo J G Bettencourt

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1332334

Aedes albopictus arrives in Lisbon: an emerging public health threat

Front Public Health. 2023 Dec 19:11:1332334. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1332334. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Teresa Nazareth^{1

2}, Gonçalo Seixas³, José Lourenço^{1

4

5}, Paulo J G Bettencourt^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rio de Mouro, Portugal.
² Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rio de Mouro, Portugal.
³ Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Associate Laboratory in Translation and Innovation Towards Global Health, LA-REAL, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHMT/UNL), Lisbon, Portugal.
⁴ Católica Biomedical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rio de Mouro, Portugal.
⁵ Climate Amplified Diseases and Epidemics (CLIMADE), Lisbon, Portugal.

No abstract available

Keywords: Aedes albopictus; Zika; chikungunya; climatic change; dengue; global expansion of mosquito-borne diseases; mRNA vaccines; yellow fever.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aedes*
Animals
Mosquito Vectors
Public Health*

Supplementary concepts

Aedes albopictus

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by internal funding of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and external funding from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), under the projects UIDP/04279/2020 and UIDB/04279/2020.