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Arbovirus surveillance: first dengue virus detection in local Aedes albopictus mosquitoes in Europe, Catalonia, Spain, 2015
- Carles Aranda1,2,3 , Miguel J. Martínez3,4,5 , Tomas Montalvo6,7 , Roger Eritja1 , Jessica Navero-Castillejos4 , Eva Herreros1 , Eduard Marqués8 , Raúl Escosa9 , Irene Corbella10 , Esther Bigas10 , Lluís Picart10 , Mireia Jané7,11 , Irene Barrabeig11 , Núria Torner7,11 , Sandra Talavera2 , Ana Vázquez7,12 , Mari Paz Sánchez-Seco12 , Núria Busquets2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 SCM, Baix Llobregat Council, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain 2 IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain 3 These authors contributed equally to this work 4 Department of Microbiology, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 5 ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 6 Servei de Vigilància i Control de Plagues Urbanes, Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 7 CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 8 SCM, Badia de Roses i Baix Ter, Empuriabrava, Spain 9 Consorci de Polítiques Ambientals de les Terres de l’Ebre (COPATE), Amposta, Spain 10 Secretaria de Salut Pública, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 11 Sub-directorate of Surveillance and Response to Public Health Emergencies, Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain 12 National Center for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, SpainNúria Busquetsnuria.busquets irta.cat
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Citation style for this article: Aranda Carles, Martínez Miguel J., Montalvo Tomas, Eritja Roger, Navero-Castillejos Jessica, Herreros Eva, Marqués Eduard, Escosa Raúl, Corbella Irene, Bigas Esther, Picart Lluís, Jané Mireia, Barrabeig Irene, Torner Núria, Talavera Sandra, Vázquez Ana, Sánchez-Seco Mari Paz, Busquets Núria. Arbovirus surveillance: first dengue virus detection in local Aedes albopictus mosquitoes in Europe, Catalonia, Spain, 2015. Euro Surveill. 2018;23(47):pii=1700837. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.47.1700837 Received: 18 Dec 2017; Accepted: 01 Jul 2018
Abstract
Dengue has emerged as the most important viral mosquito-borne disease globally. The current risk of dengue outbreaks in Europe appeared with the introduction of the vector Aedes albopictus mosquito in Mediterranean countries. Considering the increasing frequency of dengue epidemics worldwide and the movement of viraemic hosts, it is expected that new autochthonous cases will occur in the future in Europe. Arbovirus surveillance started in Catalonia in 2015 to monitor imported cases and detect possible local arboviral transmission. During 2015, 131 patients with a recent travel history to endemic countries were tested for dengue virus (DENV) and 65 dengue cases were detected. Twenty-eight patients with a febrile illness were viraemic, as demonstrated by a positive real-time RT-PCR test for DENV in serum samples. Entomological investigations around the viraemic cases led to the detection of DENV in a pool of local Ae. albopictus captured in the residency of one case. The sequence of the DENV envelope gene detected in the mosquito pool was identical to that detected in the patient. Our results show how entomological surveillance conducted around viraemic travellers can be effective for early detection of DENV in mosquitoes and thus might help to prevent possible autochthonous transmission.
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