Effectiveness and economic assessment of routine larviciding for prevention of chikungunya and dengue in temperate urban settings in Europe.

• Main Authors: Giorgio Guzzetta (Author), Filippo Trentini (Author), Piero Poletti (Author), Frederic Alexandre Baldacchino (Author), Fabrizio Montarsi (Author), Gioia Capelli (Author), Annapaola Rizzoli (Author), Roberto Rosà (Author), Stefano Merler (Author), Alessia Melegaro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In the last decades, several European countries where arboviral infections are not endemic have faced outbreaks of diseases such as chikungunya and dengue, initially introduced by infectious travellers from tropical endemic areas and then spread locally via mosquito bites. To keep in check the epide...