Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Latin America

2013126 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Jean‐Paul Carrera · Universidad de Panamá

Naomi L. Forrester

Eryu Wang

Amy Y. Vittor · University of Pennsylvania

Andrew D. Haddow

Sandra López‐Vergès

Iván Abadía · Hospital del Niño

Elizabeth Castaño · Hospital del Niño

Néstor Sosa

Abstract

Cases of EEE in humans in Latin America may be the result of ecologic changes that increased human contact with enzootic transmission cycles, genetic changes in EEE viral strains that resulted in increased human virulence, or an altered host range. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Panama.).

Topics & Keywords

Mosquito-borne diseases and control Viral Infections and Vectors Vector-borne infectious diseases

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 369, Issue 8, pp. 732-744

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1212628

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