Potential Risk of Dengue and Chikungunya Outbreaks in Northern Italy Based on a Population Model of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae).

• Main Authors: Giorgio Guzzetta (Author), Fabrizio Montarsi (Author), Frédéric Alexandre Baldacchino (Author), Markus Metz (Author), Gioia Capelli (Author), Annapaola Rizzoli (Author), Andrea Pugliese (Author), Roberto Rosà (Author), Piero Poletti (Author), Stefano Merler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The rapid invasion and spread of Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) within new continents and climatic ranges has created favorable conditions for the emergence of tropical arboviral diseases in the invaded areas. We used mosquito abundance data from 2014 collected across ten sites in northern Italy to...