Neighbor danger: Yellow fever virus epizootics in urban and urban-rural transition areas of Minas Gerais state, during 2017-2018 yellow fever outbreaks in Brazil.
Lívia SacchettoNatalia Ingrid Oliveira SilvaIzabela Maurício de RezendeMatheus Soares ArrudaThais Alkifeles CostaÉrica Munhoz de MelloGabriela Fernanda Garcia OliveiraPedro Augusto AlvesVítor Emídio de MendonçaRodolfo German Antonelli Vidal StumppAlaine Izabela Alves PradoAdriano Pereira PagliaFernando Araújo PeriniMaurício Lacerda NogueiraErna Geessien KroonBenoit de ThoisyGiliane de Souza TrindadeBetania Paiva DrumondPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2020)
The results showed the wide occurrence of YF in Minas Gerais in epidemic and non-epidemic periods. According to the sylvatic pattern of YF, a gradient of viral dissemination from rural towards urban areas was observed. A high YF positivity was observed for NHP carcasses collected in urban areas with a widespread occurrence in 67 municipalities of Minas Gerais, including large urban centers. Although there was no documented case of urban/Aedes YFV transmission to humans in Brazil during the 2016-2019 outbreaks, YFV-infected NHP in urban areas with high infestation by Aedes aegypti poses risks for YFV urban/Aedes transmission and urbanization.