| Title |
Linking Bird and Mosquito Data to Assess Spatiotemporal West Nile Virus Risk in Humans
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|---|---|
| Published in |
EcoHealth, January 2019
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10393-019-01393-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Benoit Talbot, Merlin Caron-Lévesque, Mark Ardis, Roman Kryuchkov, Manisha A. Kulkarni |
| Abstract |
West Nile virus (WNV; family Flaviviridae) causes a disease in humans that may develop into a deadly neuroinvasive disease. In North America, several peridomestic bird species can develop sufficient viremia to infect blood-feeding mosquito vectors without succumbing to the virus. Mosquito species from the genus Culex, Aedes and Ochlerotatus display variable host preferences, ranging between birds and mammals, including humans, and may bridge transmission among avian hosts and contribute to spill-over transmission to humans. In this study, we aimed to test the effect of density of three mosquito species and two avian species on WNV mosquito infection rates and investigated the link between spatiotemporal clusters of high mosquito infection rates and clusters of human WNV cases. We based our study around the city of Ottawa, Canada, between the year 2007 and 2014. We found a large effect size of density of two mosquito species on mosquito infection rates. We also found spatiotemporal overlap between a cluster of high mosquito infection rates and a cluster of human WNV cases. Our study is innovative because it suggests a role of avian and mosquito densities on mosquito infection rates and, in turn, on hotspots of human WNV cases. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| Australia | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 57 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 18% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Unknown | 14 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 30% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 11% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 5 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 28% |
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