The COVID-19 pandemic should not derail global vector control efforts

Frederik Seelig; Haroldo Bezerra; Mary Cameron; Jeffrey Hii; Alexandra Hiscox; Seth Irish; Robert T Jones; Trudie Lang; Steven W Lindsay; Rachel Lowe; Tanaka Manikidza Nyoni; Grace M Power; Juliana Quintero; Anna M Stewart-Ibarra; Lucy S Tusting; Scott Tytheridge; James G Logan

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008606

The COVID-19 pandemic should not derail global vector control efforts

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Aug 31;14(8):e0008606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008606. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Frederik Seelig¹, Haroldo Bezerra², Mary Cameron¹, Jeffrey Hii³, Alexandra Hiscox⁴, Seth Irish⁵, Robert T Jones^{1

4}, Trudie Lang⁶, Steven W Lindsay⁷, Rachel Lowe^{8

9

10

11}, Tanaka Manikidza Nyoni¹, Grace M Power¹, Juliana Quintero^{1

12}, Anna M Stewart-Ibarra^{13

14}, Lucy S Tusting^{1

9}, Scott Tytheridge^{1

4}, James G Logan^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ The Global Vector Hub, Department for Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health, Neglected, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases, Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America.
³ College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Australia.
⁴ ARCTEC, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ U.S. President's Malaria Initiative and Entomology Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
⁶ The Global Health Network, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
⁸ Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Population Health, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
¹³ Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Montevideo, Uruguay.
¹⁴ Department of Medicine, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Communicable Disease Control
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Disease Vectors*
Humans
Information Dissemination
Mosquito Control*
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Public Health Surveillance
SARS-CoV-2
Vector Borne Diseases / diagnosis
Vector Borne Diseases / epidemiology
Vector Borne Diseases / prevention & control*
World Health Organization

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding