{"doi":"10.1093/femspd/ftab043","title":"Minireview: Epidemiological impact of arboviral diseases in Latin American countries, arbovirus-vector interactions and control strategies","abstract":"<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>Mosquitoes are the most crucial insects in public health due to their vector capacity and competence to transmit pathogens, including arboviruses, bacterias and parasites. Re-emerging and emerging arboviral diseases, such as yellow fever virus (YFV), dengue virus (DENV), zika virus (ZIKV), and chikungunya virus (CHIKV), constitute one of the most critical health public concerns in Latin America. These diseases present a significant incidence within the human settlements increasing morbidity and mortality events. Likewise, among the different genus of mosquito vectors of arboviruses, those of the most significant medical importance corresponds to Aedes and Culex. In Latin America, the mosquito vector species of YFV, DENV, ZIKV, and CHIKV are mainly Aedes aegypti and Ae. Albopictus. Ae. aegypti is recognized as the primary vector in urban environments, whereas Ae. albopictus, recently introduced in the Americas, is more prone to rural settings. This minireview focuses on what is known about the epidemiological impact of mosquito-borne diseases in Latin American countries, with particular emphasis on YFV, DENV, ZIKV and CHIKV, vector mosquitoes, geographic distribution, and vector-arbovirus interactions. Besides, it was analyzed how climate change and social factors have influenced the spread of arboviruses and the control strategies developed against mosquitoes in this continent.</jats:p>","journal":"Pathogens and Disease","year":2021,"id":25738,"datarank":1.0511525540245574,"base_score":3.4011973816621555,"endowment":3.4011973816621555,"self_citation_contribution":0.5101796072493234,"citation_network_contribution":0.5409729467752341,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5101796072493234,"citer_contribution":0.5409729467752341,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":29,"citer_count":27,"citers_with_citation_signal":17,"citers_with_endowment":17,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":150659,"name":"Ana L Muñoz","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":150660,"name":"Mónica Losada-Barragán","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":150661,"name":"Orlando Torres","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":150663,"name":"Anny K Rodríguez","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":150665,"name":"Héctor Rangel","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":150666,"name":"Felio Bello","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":150658,"name":"Nidya A Segura","orcid":"0000-0001-5810-4847","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"base_score":3.4011973816621555,"endowment":3.4011973816621555,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"34410378","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W3195780472","authors":[],"funders":[{"funder_name":"Faculty of Science, VUW","grant_id":"124380864546","title":null},{"funder_name":"Faculty of Science, VUW","grant_id":"80740–152-2019","title":null}],"total_grants":2,"fwci":2.1717,"citation_percentile":0.87551887,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2021,"count":1},{"year":2022,"count":5},{"year":2023,"count":2},{"year":2024,"count":3},{"year":2025,"count":14},{"year":2026,"count":4}],"oa_status":"bronze","license":"https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://academic.oup.com/femspd/article-pdf/79/7/ftab043/40318144/ftab043.pdf","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://academic.oup.com/femspd/article-pdf/79/7/ftab043/40318144/ftab043.pdf","host_type":"BRONZE"},{"url":"https://academic.oup.com/femspd/article-pdf/79/7/ftab043/40318144/ftab043.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"http://academic.oup.com/femspd/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/femspd/ftab043/39806409/ftab043.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"http://academic.oup.com/femspd/article-pdf/79/7/ftab043/40318144/ftab043.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femspd/ftab043","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34410378","host_type":"repository"}],"fields_of_study":["Mosquito-borne diseases and control","Viral Infections and Vectors","Malaria Research and Control","Medicine","Environmental Science","Animals","Arbovirus Infections","Arboviruses","Chikungunya virus","Climate","Culicidae","Dengue Virus","Host Microbial Interactions","Humans","Latin America","Mosquito Vectors","Public Health","Social Factors","Vector Borne Diseases","Yellow fever virus","Zika Virus"],"mesh_terms":["Zika Virus","Mosquito Vectors","Host Microbial Interactions","Vector Borne Diseases","Social Factors","Animals","Arbovirus Infections","Arboviruses","Chikungunya virus","Climate","Dengue Virus","Humans","Latin America","Culicidae","Public Health","Yellow fever virus"],"keywords":["Arbovirus","Chikungunya","Vector (molecular biology)","Zika virus","Yellow fever","Aedes aegypti","Dengue fever","Arbovirus Infections","Virology","Biology","Aedes","Aedes albopictus","Latin Americans","Dengue virus","Mosquito control","Virus","Malaria","Ecology","Immunology","Political science","Mosquitoes","Chikungunya virus","Yellow Fever Virus","Latin American Countries"],"sdg_mappings":[{"sdg_number":0,"sdg_label":"Good health and well-being"}],"linked_datasets":[],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-06-08T07:36:09.513824Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}