ArticlePloS one2016
High Prevalence of West Nile Virus in Domestic Birds and Detection in 2 New Mosquito Species in Madagascar.
Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identifying genomic surveillance gaps in Africa for the global public health response to West Nile virus: a systematic review.The Lancet. Microbe · 2025Pooled it
- Epidemiology of West Nile virus in Africa: An underestimated threat.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Pooled it
- West Nile Virus: An Update Focusing on Southern Europe.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Interactions between avian viruses and skin in farm birds.Veterinary research · 2024Review
- Accelerating targeted mosquito control efforts through mobile West Nile virus detection.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- A Systematic Review on the Viruses ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Review
- Circulation of West Nile virus in mosquitoes approximate to the migratory bird stopover in West Coast Malaysia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Arbovirus Epidemiology: The Mystery of Unnoticed Epidemics in Ghana, West Africa.Microorganisms · 2022Review
- Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity and medical importance in Koh Kong mangrove forests, Cambodia.Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news · 2022Article
- Criteria for selecting sentinel unit locations in a surveillance system for vector-borne disease: A decision tool.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Article
- A Scoping Review of West Nile Virus Seroprevalence Studies among African Equids.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Review
- Potential Role of Birds in Japanese Encephalitis Virus Zoonotic Transmission and Genotype Shift.Viruses · 2021Review
- Serological Evidence of West Nile and Usutu Viruses Circulation in Domestic and Wild Birds in Wetlands of Mali and Madagascar in 2008.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Article
- Experimental Usutu Virus Infection in Domestic CanariesViruses · 2020Article
- Serological Evidence for Japanese Encephalitis and West Nile Virus Infections in Domestic Birds in Cambodia.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Article
- Diverse novel resident Wolbachia strains in Culicine mosquitoes from Madagascar.Scientific reports · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
West Nile virus is an arthropod-borne zoonosis transmitted by a large number of mosquito species, and birds play a key role as reservoir of the virus. Its distribution is largely widespread over Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Since 1978, it has frequently been reported in Madagascar. Studies described a high seroprevalence level of the virus in humans in different areas of the island and a human fatal case of WNV infection was reported in 2011. Despite these reports, the epidemiology of WNV in Madagascar, in particular, viral circulation remains unclear. To explore the transmission of WNV in two rural human populations of Madagascar, we investigated local mosquitoes and poultry for evidence of current infections, and determined seroprevalence of candidate sentinel species among the local poultry. These 2 areas are close to lakes where domestic birds, migratory wild birds and humans coexist. Serological analysis revealed WNV antibodies in domestic birds (duck, chicken, goose, turkey and guinea fowl) sampled in both districts (Antsalova 29.4% and Mitsinjo 16.7%). West Nile virus nucleic acid was detected in one chicken and in 8 pools of mosquitoes including 2 mosquito species (Aedeomyia madagascarica and Anopheles pauliani) that have not been previously described as candidate vectors for WNV. Molecular analysis of WNV isolates showed that all viruses detected were part of the lineage 2 that is mainly distributed in Africa, and were most closely matched by the previous Malagasy strains isolated in 1988. Our study showed that WNV circulates in Madagascar amongst domestic birds and mosquitoes, and highlights the utility of poultry as a surveillance tool to detect WNV transmission in a peri-domestic setting.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.