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Queensland Health is responsible for recording data on all notifiable mosquito borne diseases in Queensland. Contact us for more information.

Surveillance

• Map of imported dengue cases and towns recently surveyed for Ae aegypti by local government area (LGA)

Research (WWW)

• James Cook University, Queensland: Entomology research
• Mosquito and Arbovirus Research Committee, Queensland
• Queensland Institute of Medical Research – Mosquito Control 
• University of Queensland: School of Biological Sciences
• University of Sydney/Westmead Hospital Department of Medical Entomology
• Vector-borne Disease Early Detection and Surveillance (VEDS) System
• Eliminate dengue website
• Atlas of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network 2011

Relevant research articles

• Chikungunya: a re-emerging virus
  F J Burt et al, Lancet, 2011, 379, 9816
• Chikungunya Fever: An Epidemiological Review of a Re-Emerging Infectious Disease
  J E Staples et al, Emerging Infections, 2009, 49
• Vector competence of Australian mosquitoes for chikungunya virus
  A F Van den Hurk et al, Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2010, 10 (5)
• Dengue and climate change in Australia: predictions for the future should incorporate knowledge from the past
  R C Russell et al, Medical Journal of Australia, 2009, 190 (5)
• Does Mosquito Control Have an Effect on Mosquito-Borne Disease? The Case of Ross River Virus Disease and Mosquito Management in Queensland, Australia
  D M Tomerini et al, Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 2011, 27 (1)
• Consequences of the Expanding Global Distribution of Aedes albopictus for Dengue Virus Transmission
  L Lambrechts et al, PLOS, Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2004, 4 (5)
• Exploiting mosquito sugar feeding to detect mosquito-borne pathogens
  Andrew F. van den Hurk, et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 2010, 107 (25)
• Next-Generation Dengue Vaccines: Novel Strategies Currently Under Development
  Anna P. Durbin et al, Viruses, 2011, (3)
• Dengue control: the challenge ahead
  Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec, Future Microbiology, 2011, 6 (3)
• Quantifying the Spatial Dimension of Dengue Virus Epidemic Spread within a Tropical Urban Environment
  Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, Uriel Kitron, Brian Montgomery, Peter Horne, Scott A. Ritchie,
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, December 2010, 4, (12)
• Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission
  S. L. O'Neill, et al, Nature, Aug 2011, 476, (25)
• Defining Challenges and Proposing Solutions for Control of the Virus Vector Aedes aegypti
  Amy C. Morrison, Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez, Thomas W. Scott, Ronald Rosenberg
  PLoS Medicine, March 2008, 5, (3)
• National Guidelines for the Prevention, Management and Control of Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus
  Communicable Diseases Network Australia, 2005, version: 9

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Last Updated: 19 April 2012
Last Reviewed: 19 April 2012

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