Invasive alien plants in Africa and the potential emergence of mosquito-borne arboviral diseases: A review and research outlook

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bonnen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Liverpoolen
cg.contributor.affiliationHumboldt Universitat zu Berlinen
cg.contributor.affiliationBerlin Institute of Healthen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaften
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierSheila Agha: 0000-0002-5480-6865en
cg.creator.identifierEric M. Fèvre: 0000-0001-8931-4986en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/v13010032en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1999-4915en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalVirusesen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriAGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.ilriAGRI-HEALTHen
cg.subject.ilriINTENSIFICATIONen
cg.subject.ilriRESEARCHen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen
cg.volume13en
dc.contributor.authorAgha, Sheila B.en
dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez, M.en
dc.contributor.authorBecker, M.en
dc.contributor.authorFèvre, Eric M.en
dc.contributor.authorJunglen, S.en
dc.contributor.authorBorgemeister, C.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-04T18:30:53Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-04T18:30:53Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110697
dc.titleInvasive alien plants in Africa and the potential emergence of mosquito-borne arboviral diseases: A review and research outlooken
dcterms.abstractThe emergence of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) as linked to land-use changes, especially the growing agricultural intensification and expansion efforts in rural parts of Africa, is of growing health concern. This places an additional burden on health systems as drugs, vaccines, and effective vector-control measures against arboviruses and their vectors remain lacking. An integrated One Health approach holds potential in the control and prevention of arboviruses. Land-use changes favour invasion by invasive alien plants (IAPs) and investigating their impact on mosquito populations may offer a new dimension to our understanding of arbovirus emergence. Of prime importance to understand is how IAPs influence mosquito life-history traits and how this may affect transmission of arboviruses to mammalian hosts, questions that we are exploring in this review. Potential effects of IAPs may be significant, including supporting the proliferation of immature and adult stages of mosquito vectors, providing additional nutrition and suitable microhabitats, and a possible interaction between ingested secondary plant metabolites and arboviruses. We conclude that aspects of vector biology are differentially affected by individual IAPs and that while some plants may have the potential to indirectly increase the risk of transmission of certain arboviruses by their direct interaction with the vectors, the reverse holds for other IAPs. In addition, we highlight priority research areas to improve our understanding of the potential health impacts of IAPs.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2020-12-27en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAgha, S.B., Alvarez, M., Becker, M., Fèvre, E.M., Junglen, S. and Borgemeister, C. 2021. Invasive alien plants in Africa and the potential emergence of mosquito-borne arboviral diseases: A review and research outlook. Viruses 13(1): 32.en
dcterms.issued2021-01-01en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPIen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectintensificationen
dcterms.subjectinvasive speciesen
dcterms.subjectland use changeen
dcterms.subjectvectorsen
dcterms.subjectarbovirusesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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