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Reduced West Nile Virus Transmission Around Communal Roosts of Great-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus).
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Geographic variations of the bird-borne structural risk of West Nile virus circulation in Europe.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Mixed-species assemblages and disease: the importance of differential vector and parasite attraction in transmission dynamics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Assessing the risk of West Nile Virus seasonal outbreaks and its vector control in an urbanizing bird community: An integrative R0-modelling study in the city of Merida, Mexico.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Great-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus mexicanus) as a tolerant host of avian malaria parasites.PloS one · 2022Article
- Bias Correction in Estimating Proportions by Imperfect Pooled Testing.Journal of agricultural, biological, and environmental statistics · 2021Article
- On the Fly: Interactions Between Birds, Mosquitoes, and Environment That Have Molded West Nile Virus Genomic Structure Over Two Decades.Journal of medical entomology · 2019Review
- Feeding Success and Host Selection byVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Evaluation of a novel West Nile virus transmission control strategy that targets Culex tarsalis with endectocide-containing blood meals.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Focal amplification and suppression of West Nile virus transmission associated with communal bird roosts in northern Colorado.Journal of vector ecology : journal of the Society for Vector Ecology · 2018Article
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Abstract
West Nile virus has caused several outbreaks among humans in the Phoenix metropolitan area (Arizona, southwest USA) within the last decade. Recent ecologic studies have implicated Culex quinquefasciatus and Culex tarsalis as the mosquito vectors and identified three abundant passerine birds-great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus), house sparrow (Passer domesticus), and house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)-as key amplifiers among vertebrates. Nocturnal congregations of certain species have been suggested as critical for late summer West Nile virus amplification. We evaluated the hypothesis that house sparrow (P. domesticus) and/or great-tailed grackle (Q. mexicanus) communal roost sites (n = 22 and n = 5, respectively) in a primarily suburban environment were spatially associated with West Nile virus transmission indices during the 2010 outbreak of human neurological disease in metropolitan Phoenix. Spatial associations between human case residences and communal roosts were non-significant for house sparrows, and were negative for great-tailed grackle. Several theories that explain these observations are discussed, including the possibility that grackle communal roosts are protective.
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