Arbo-France: a French network for the study of human and animal arboviruses Arbo-France
Arbo France: un réseau français d'étude des arboviroses humaines et animales
Résumé
Arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) are viruses of humans and/or animals transmitted by hematophagous arthropod vectors (mosquitoes, ticks, blackflies, sandflies, horseflies, culicoides, etc.) from an animal reservoir or infected individual. They are a heterogeneous set of viruses – mostly RNA-enveloped – belonging to different families and genera. There are more than 550 arboviruses, of which about 100 are pathogenic to humans and nearly 40 cause identified animal diseases [...]