Viral Ecology of Flavivirus and Alphavirus associated to mosquitoes in Mangroves and neighborhood ecosystems from Northern of Colombian Caribbean
Viral Ecology of Flavivirus and Alphavirus associated to mosquitoes in Mangroves and neighborhood ecosystems from Northern of Colombian Caribbean Richard Hoyos-López. B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D. Abstract Viral emergence, in the context of viral evolutionary ecology, requires the identification of viruses in mosquito and vertebrate communities, subtypes/evolutionary variants with increasing virulence, the frequency of interaction and habitats that may favor transmission to alternative reservoirs or hosts. All this information allows identifying the potential elements that are necessary for the emergency in human populations, whose intervention facilitates the jumps to alternative hosts, changes in communities of mosquitoes and vertebrates that favor epidemic outbreaks. In our study, we determined the ecology of pathogenic arboviruses belonging to the genera Alphavirus and Flavivirus in mosquitoes associated with coastal ecosystems, and their potential for emergent scenarios in the ru