Global health impacts of vector-borne diseases : workshop summary / Alison Mack, rapporteur ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2016]

xxiii, 371 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Workshop overview -- Appendixes. Contributed manuscripts. Emerging insect-transmitted plant diseases : the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa as a case study / Rodrigo P.P. Almeida and L. Nunney -- Genetic control of Aedes mosquitoes / Luke Alphey, Andrew McKemey, Derric Nimmo, Marco Neira Oviedo, Renaud Lacroix, Kelly Matzen, and Camilla Beech -- The intensifying storm : domestication of Aedes aegypti, urbanization of arboviruses, and emerging insecticide resistance / Barry J. Beaty, William C. Black IV, Lars Eisen, Adriana E. Flores, Julian E. Garcia-Rejon, Maria Lorono-Pino, and Karla Saavedra-Rodriguez -- Dengue, Chikungunya, and other vector-borne diseases (VBDs) : surveillance and response in Latin America and the Caribbean : the role of the Pan American Health Organization / Luis Gerardo Castellanos -- Vector-borne diseases : animals and patterns / Margot Stuchin, Catherine C. Machalaba, William B. Karesh -- Drivers, dynamics, and control of emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases / A. Marm Kilpatrick and Sarah E. Randolph -- Climate teleconnections, weather extremes, and vector-borne disease outbreaks / Kenneth J. Linthicum, Assaf Anyamba, Seth C. Britch, Jennifer L. Small, and Compton J. Tucker -- Changing paradigms for tick-borne diseases in the Americas / Christopher D. Paddock, Robert S. Lane, J. Erin Staples, and Marcelo B. Labruna -- Emerging vector-borne diseases in the United States : what is next, and are we prepared? / Lyle R. Petersen, Roger S. Nasci, Charles B. Beard, and Robert F. Massung -- Arbovirus evolution, vector competence, and virulence models : changing patterns of infection / Corey W. Hecksel and Rebecca Rico-Hesse -- Vector-borne disease emergence and spread in the European Union / Jan C. Semenza -- Disruption of insect transmission of plant viruses / Anna E. Whitfield and Dorith Rotenberg.