Epidemiological evidence of mosquito-borne viruses among persons and vectors in Iran: A study from North to South

Abbas Ahmadi Vasmehjani; Farhad Rezaei; Mohammad Farahmand; Talat Mokhtari-Azad; Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi; Mohsen Keshavarz; Hamid Reza Baseri; Morteza Zaim; Mahmood Iranpour; Habibollah Turki; Mohammad Esmaeilpour-Bandboni

doi:10.1016/j.virs.2022.01.005

February 2022

Abbas Ahmadi Vasmehjani, Farhad Rezaei, Mohammad Farahmand, Talat Mokhtari-Azad, Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohsen Keshavarz, Hamid Reza Baseri, Morteza Zaim, Mahmood Iranpour, Habibollah Turki and Mohammad Esmaeilpour-Bandboni. Epidemiological evidence of mosquito-borne viruses among persons and vectors in Iran: A study from North to South[J]. Virologica Sinica, 2022, 37(1): 149-152. doi: 10.1016/j.virs.2022.01.005

Citation: Abbas Ahmadi Vasmehjani, Farhad Rezaei, Mohammad Farahmand, Talat Mokhtari-Azad, Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohsen Keshavarz, Hamid Reza Baseri, Morteza Zaim, Mahmood Iranpour, Habibollah Turki, Mohammad Esmaeilpour-Bandboni. Epidemiological evidence of mosquito-borne viruses among persons and vectors in Iran: A study from North to South .VIROLOGICA SINICA, 2022, 37(1) : 149-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virs.2022.01.005

Epidemiological evidence of mosquito-borne viruses among persons and vectors in Iran: A study from North to South

a Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14156446, Iran
b Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14156446, Iran
c The Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, 7514763448, Iran
d Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
e Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, 7919693116, Iran
f School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, 4188794755, Iran

通讯作者： Farhad Rezaei, rezaie@tums.ac.ir;
收稿日期： 2020-07-12
录用日期： 2021-08-09

摘要

Arthropod-borne viruses are a group of the most important emerging pathogens. They cause a range of diseases in vertebrate hosts and threaten human health (Gan and Leo, 2014). The global distribution of arboviruses is associated with the vector which is strongly affected by changes in environmental conditions. Dengue virus (DENV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which cause high annual infected cases and have an increasing geographic distribution, are transmitted by Aedes spp. mosquitoes, in particular Ae. albopictus and Ae. Aegypti (Presti et al., 2014; Higuera and Ramírez, 2018). Although, the main vector of dengue virus, Ae. aegypti, was not detected in Iran, other possible important vectors such as Ae. Albopictus and Ae. unilineatus were recorded (Doosti et al., 2016; Yaghoobi-Ershadi et al., 2017). West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the genus Flaviviruses, is one of the most widespread arboviruses (Chancey et al., 2015). The epidemiological evidence of WNV in different hosts in Iran was found (Bagheri et al., 2015), and the circulation of WNV in the main vector, Culex pipiens s.l. and Cx. pipiens, has been proved (Shahhosseini et al., 2017). Due to limited information on the situation of CHIKV, DENV and WNV in Iran, we performed a wide geographical investigation to determine the prevalence of IgG specific antibodies in human samples as well as the genome of WNV, CHIKV and DENV in mosquitoes.

Epidemiological evidence of mosquito-borne viruses among persons and vectors in Iran: A study from North to South

a Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14156446, Iran
b Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14156446, Iran
c The Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, 7514763448, Iran
d Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
e Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, 7919693116, Iran
f School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, 4188794755, Iran

Corresponding author: Farhad Rezaei, rezaie@tums.ac.ir
Received Date: 12 July 2020
Accepted Date: 09 August 2021

Abstract

Arthropod-borne viruses are a group of the most important emerging pathogens. They cause a range of diseases in vertebrate hosts and threaten human health (Gan and Leo, 2014). The global distribution of arboviruses is associated with the vector which is strongly affected by changes in environmental conditions. Dengue virus (DENV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which cause high annual infected cases and have an increasing geographic distribution, are transmitted by Aedes spp. mosquitoes, in particular Ae. albopictus and Ae. Aegypti (Presti et al., 2014; Higuera and Ramírez, 2018). Although, the main vector of dengue virus, Ae. aegypti, was not detected in Iran, other possible important vectors such as Ae. Albopictus and Ae. unilineatus were recorded (Doosti et al., 2016; Yaghoobi-Ershadi et al., 2017). West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the genus Flaviviruses, is one of the most widespread arboviruses (Chancey et al., 2015). The epidemiological evidence of WNV in different hosts in Iran was found (Bagheri et al., 2015), and the circulation of WNV in the main vector, Culex pipiens s.l. and Cx. pipiens, has been proved (Shahhosseini et al., 2017). Due to limited information on the situation of CHIKV, DENV and WNV in Iran, we performed a wide geographical investigation to determine the prevalence of IgG specific antibodies in human samples as well as the genome of WNV, CHIKV and DENV in mosquitoes.

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