Assessment of relation of land use characteristics with vector-borne diseases in tropical areas

Sheela, A. M.; Ghermandi, Andrea; Vineetha, P.; Sheeja, R. V.; Justus, J.; Ajayakrishna, K.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.047

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“…The formulation of building specifications should take into account the improvement of integrated disaster prevention and construction goals, which include the quality of urban and rural living environment, the level of public health security, and the ability to prevent major disasters. Constructive measures and standards (in history) for preventing and delaying epidemic diseases mainly include: water and sewerage systems in urban and rural areas (separation of rain and sewage) ( Sheela et al, 2017 ; Zhu & Chang, 2020 ), residential spacing related to the health of sunlight, the layout of cities and buildings relating to ventilation orientation. Nowadays, green building, ecological city, healthy city and other related theories and practical exploration have come into the world ( Li, Yi et al, 2020 , Li, Sun et al, 2020 ; Li, Chow et al, 2020 ; Ahad, Paiva, Tripathi, & Feroz, 2020 ) ( Lilis, Conus, Asadi, & Kayal, 2017 ).…”

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Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Wang

2021

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Highlights Reform of urban design regulations required considering multi disasters’ prevention A integrated prevention system to be established based on multiple objectives’ optimization The equilibrium of disaster occurrence probability and stop loss cost Providing reference for the prevention and control of cities epidemic and urban disasters

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Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Wang

2021

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…3.4. Environmental changes that affect vector ecology Vector-borne diseases are amongst the infectious diseases with the strongest links to land use since vector ecology is closely affected by the environment (Patz et al, 2004;Zahouli et al, 2017;Young et al, 2017;Sheela et al, 2017). Important aspects of a vector population, such as species diversity and population densities, can be governed by environmental parameters (Petrić et al, 2014;Bashar et al, 2016, Betekov et al, 2010Confalonieri and Neto, 2012).…”

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The impact of industrial activities on vector-borne disease transmission

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Industrial activities have produced profound changes in the natural environment, including the mass removal of trees, fragmentation of habitats, and creation of larval mosquito breeding sites, that have allowed the vectors of disease pathogens to thrive. We conducted a review of the literature to assess the impact of industrial activities on vector-borne disease transmission. Our study shows that industrial activities may be coupled with significant changes to human demographics that can potentially increase contact between pathogens, vectors and hosts, and produce a shift of parasites and susceptible populations between low and high disease endemic areas. Indeed, where vector-borne diseases and industrial activities intersect, large numbers of potentially immunologically naïve people may be exposed to infection and lack the knowledge and means to protect themselves from infection. Such areas are typically associated with inadequate access to quality health care, thus allowing industrial development and production sites to become important foci of transmission. The altered local vector ecologies, and the changes in disease dynamics that changes affect, create challenges for under-resourced health care and vector-control systems.

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“…Vector-borne diseases constitute a serious risk to human health causing substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide [1,2]. Ticks are haematophagous ectoparasites of vertebrates that obtain their nutrition by feeding on blood, hence, they have been described as competent vectors of diseases, and over 10% of the currently known population of tick species have been described to be of medical or veterinary signi cance [3,4].…”

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Evidence of pathogenic zoonotic tick-borne Rickettsia and Borrelia spp. in some communal farms in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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Abstract The abundance of tick populations in South Africa represents a probable risk for both animal and human health. Rickettsia spp. and Borrelia spp. are well-known significant agents of emerging human tick-borne infectious diseases throughout the world. Nevertheless, the epidemiology of their infections has been underreported in South Africa, therefore, the aim of this study was to profile for zoonotic Rickettsia and Borrelia species from ticks infesting domesticated animals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Morphological and molecular identification techniques were conducted on 1,200 tick samples collected from domestic animals before screening for the target bacterial pathogens. The molecular identification of the tick samples was based on the amplification of the 12S rRNA mitochondrial DNA while those of Rickettsia and Borrelia species were carried out by amplifying fragments of gltA, ompA and ompB genes for Rickettsia and flaB gene for Borrelia spp. Thereafter, the positive ticks, Borrelia and Rickettsia ompB amplicons were sequenced and further analysed. Eight species of ticks belonging to three genera; Rhipicephalus, Amblyomma, and Haemaphysalis were identified. A total of 320 (27%) samples were confirmed positive for Rickettsia out of which 74 (23%) were positive for both ompA and ompB genes. Phylogenetic analysis of ompB revealed a high homology to rickettsial reference strains from GenBank, while there was no positive result for Borrelia. The generated sequences showed 99.1 to 100% homology with R. africae-KX227790 (100 %), R. parkeri - KY113111 (99.8 %), R. peacock (99.3 %) and R. slovaca - KJ675445, JX683122 (99.1 %) representative sequences in GenBank. The findings from this study revealed that ticks collected from domesticated animals were parasitized by Rickettsia species with possible zoonotic potential, which is detrimental to human health if bitten by infected ticks.

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Assessment of relation of land use characteristics with vector-borne diseases in tropical areas

Cited by 30 publications

References 17 publications

Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

The impact of industrial activities on vector-borne disease transmission

Evidence of pathogenic zoonotic tick-borne Rickettsia and Borrelia spp. in some communal farms in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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