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ReviewFEMS microbiology letters2018

Vector-borne diseases and climate change: a European perspective.

Jan C Semenza, Jonathan E Suk

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Review in FEMS microbiology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 199 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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199citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

199 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Association between temperature and malaria (1959-2019): a systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025
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  12. Association between heavy rainfall and flooding events and infectious diseases in Europe: a rapid review, 2018 to 2025.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jan C SemenzaEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Tomtebodavägen 11A, Stockholm, S-171 83, Sweden.
Jonathan E SukEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Tomtebodavägen 11A, Stockholm, S-171 83, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change has already impacted the transmission of a wide range of vector-borne diseases in Europe, and it will continue to do so in the coming decades. Climate change has been implicated in the observed shift of ticks to elevated altitudes and latitudes, notably including the Ixodes ricinus tick species that is a vector for Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis. Climate change is also thought to have been a factor in the expansion of other important disease vectors in Europe: Aedes albopictus (the Asian tiger mosquito), which transmits diseases such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya, and Phlebotomus sandfly species, which transmits diseases including Leishmaniasis. In addition, highly elevated temperatures in the summer of 2010 have been associated with an epidemic of West Nile Fever in Southeast Europe and subsequent outbreaks have been linked to summer temperature anomalies. Future climate-sensitive health impacts are challenging to project quantitatively, in part due to the intricate interplay between non-climatic and climatic drivers, weather-sensitive pathogens and climate-change adaptation. Moreover, globalisation and international air travel contribute to pathogen and vector dispersion internationally. Nevertheless, monitoring forecasts of meteorological conditions can help detect epidemic precursors of vector-borne disease outbreaks and serve as early warning systems for risk reduction.

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Climate ChangeDisease OutbreaksInsect VectorsAnimalsCulicidaeEuropeForecastingHumansPsychodidaeTickschikungunyaclimate changedengueLeishmaniasisvector-borne diseasesZika

Identifiers

PMID29149298
PMCPMC5812531

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