ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2011
Regional differences in the association between land cover and West Nile virus disease incidence in humans in the United States.
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- Risk factors associated with sustained circulation of six zoonotic arboviruses: a systematic review for selection of surveillance sites in non-endemic areas.Parasites & vectors · 2019Pooled it
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- Remote sensing of temperature-dependent mosquito and viral traits predicts field surveillance-based disease risk.Ecology · 2024Article
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- Regional variation in the landscape ecology of West Nile virus sentinel chicken seroconversion in Florida.PloS one · 2024Article
- Multi-Model Prediction of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease With Machine Learning for Identification of Important Regional Climatic Drivers.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Ensemble species distribution modeling of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae) in the continental United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2023Article
- Comparison of West Nile Virus Disease in Humans and Horses: Exploiting Similarities for Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance.Viruses · 2023Review
- Temporal and Spatial Synchronicity in West Nile Virus Cases Along the Central Flyway, USA.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Assessing the Influence of Climate on the Spatial Pattern of West Nile Virus Incidence in the United States.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Relative Influence of Land Use, Mosquito Abundance, and Bird Communities in Defining West Nile Virus Infection Rates inInsects · 2022Article
- Effect of Agroecosystems on Seroprevalence of St. Louis Encephalitis and West Nile Viruses in Birds, La Pampa, Argentina, 2017-2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Updated distribution maps of predominant Culex mosquitoes across the Americas.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
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Abstract
West Nile virus (WNV) is generally considered to be an urban pathogen in the United States, but studies associating land cover and disease incidence, seroprevalence, or infection rate in humans, birds, domesticated and wild mammals, and mosquitoes report varying and sometimes contradictory results at an array of spatial extents. Human infection can provide insight about basic transmission activity; therefore, we analyzed data on the incidence of WNV disease in humans to obtain a comprehensive picture of how human disease and land cover type are associated across the United States. Human WNV disease incidence in Northeastern regions was positively associated with urban land covers, whereas incidence in the Western United States was positively associated with agricultural land covers. We suggest that these regional associations are explained by the geographic distributions of prominent WNV vectors: Culex pipiens complex (including Cx. pipiens and Cx. quinquefasciatus) in the Northeast and Cx. tarsalis in the Western United States.
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