Temperature and development of Zika virus infection: An Indonesian case
Journal Title: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 10, Issue 3
Abstract
World Health Organization declared that Zika virus is an international health issue [1,2]. Zika virus infection is a health issue occurring in Asia [3] and transmitted through mosquito bites [4], Aedes aegypti [5]. As the tropical areas, Southeast Asia has a lot of tropical diseases, some of which are endemic in this region, such as dengue fever, malaria, and chikungunya [6]. In Indonesia, Zika virus was discovered in early 2015 in the Province of Jambi, where the population was approximately 3 million people in 2014 with 51000 ha of the area [7]. The case of Zika virus was discovered by the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and it was detected from a 27 year-old man who had never traveled abroad. This was supported by the laboratorial test revealing that it was not a dengue virus although having the similar symptoms in dengue fever [8]. Zika virus cases in this Province were analyzed descriptively by connecting the factor of temperature in 2014. The data of temperature varied; the average of temperature in January, February, March, April, June, July, August, October, November, and December was 22.45 C, while on May the temperature was 23.1 C, and on September was 21.3 C. Therefore, it was considered that the average of temperature for the development of Zika virus in the Province of Jambi was 22.4 C. Chan et al. mentioned that the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are unlikely to develop at an average of temperature between 16.4 and 35.0 C [9]. That temperature affects on the physiology of mosquitoes and can lead to increased transmission of the virus [10].
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Ramadhan Tosepu
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