| ecological niche modeling of aedes mosquito vectors of chikungunya virus in southeastern senegal. | chikungunya virus (chikv) originated in a sylvatic cycle of transmission between non-human animal hosts and vector mosquitoes in the forests of africa. subsequently the virus jumped out of this ancestral cycle into a human-endemic transmission cycle vectored by anthropophilic mosquitoes. sylvatic chikv cycles persist in africa and continue to spill over into humans, creating the potential for new chikv strains to enter human-endemic transmission. to mitigate such spillover, it is first necessary ... | 2018 | 29673389 |