Development of the monitoring method for identification of high risk areas of vector-borne infectious diseases in Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26450484
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Environmental agriculture(including landscape science)
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Yukita 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 准教授 (40271762)
• Research Collaborator: TSUDA Yoshio ; EJIRI Hiroko ; SAKANAKURA Takaaki ; SAITO Keisuke ; ISHIDA Ken ; HISASUE Shuji
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ベクター媒介性感染症 / 血液寄生原虫 / 鳥マラリア / 蚊 / 保全医学 / 環境

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Monitoring of vector-borne diseases such as malaria is important to evaluate the relationship between climate change and distribution of those pathogens. Through this study, several monitoring sites have been selected for identification of high risk areas of vector-borne infectious diseases in Japan.

Free Research Field

野生動物医学