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VOL. 6, ISSUE 6 (2021)
Dengue and dengue fever: A mosquito (Aedes aegypti) vector borne human killer
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Saravanan Muniyappan, Arul Balasubramanian, Kothai Ramalingam
Abstract
The past two decades mankind faced many viral infections amongst them the most dangerous and lethal infection was dengue fever. It is a mosquito vector borne disease transmitted from person to person. Dengue viral infection may be symptomatic or asymptomatic associated with fever, dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), or dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Every year, around 100 million people got affected and the cases are reported and half a million cases of DHF occur around the world. The untreated patients infected by dengue virus are left to a painful death. This deadliest disease was spread by mosquito species called Aedes aegypti and it serves as one of the host and carrier of the dengue virus from person to person. The current work is aimed to give a detailed report on the morphology of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, its life cycle as a vector of dengue fever, pathogenesis of dengue infection, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prophylactic measures to control dengue viral infections. This study report will serve as the supporting resource for the researchers working on the development of novel biomolecules to control dengue viral infections and to the entomologists to in the eradication of the dengue virus vectors. This review covers the important aspects of the etiology of dengue infections, the dengue virus and its mosquito vector, clinical features and pathogenesis of dengue infections, and the prevention, control of Dengue viral infections.
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Pages:91-100
How to cite this article:
Saravanan Muniyappan, Arul Balasubramanian, Kothai Ramalingam "Dengue and dengue fever: A mosquito (<em>Aedes aegypti)</em> vector borne human killer ". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 6, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 91-100
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