First report on human-biting Culex pipiens in Sweden

Culex mosquitoes are vectors of several bird-hosted arboviruses that cause outbreaks in Europe, such as Sindbis virus and West Nile virus. Recently, the human-biting form of Culex pipiens, Cx. pipiens biotype molestus, was found causing big nuisance in a housing cooperative in Gothenburg in southern...

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Autores principales: Hesson, Jenny C., Schäfer, Martina, Lundström, Jan O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27927233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1925-3
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description Culex mosquitoes are vectors of several bird-hosted arboviruses that cause outbreaks in Europe, such as Sindbis virus and West Nile virus. Recently, the human-biting form of Culex pipiens, Cx. pipiens biotype molestus, was found causing big nuisance in a housing cooperative in Gothenburg in southern Sweden, confirmed by molecular identification. This is the first report of human-biting Culex in Scandinavia, signalling increased risk of arbovirus infection in northern Europe.
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spelling pubmed-51423522016-12-15 First report on human-biting Culex pipiens in Sweden Hesson, Jenny C. Schäfer, Martina Lundström, Jan O. Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor Culex mosquitoes are vectors of several bird-hosted arboviruses that cause outbreaks in Europe, such as Sindbis virus and West Nile virus. Recently, the human-biting form of Culex pipiens, Cx. pipiens biotype molestus, was found causing big nuisance in a housing cooperative in Gothenburg in southern Sweden, confirmed by molecular identification. This is the first report of human-biting Culex in Scandinavia, signalling increased risk of arbovirus infection in northern Europe. BioMed Central 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5142352/ /pubmed/27927233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1925-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142352/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1925-3
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