ArticleJournal of medical entomology2016
The Impact of Cycling Temperature on the Transmission of West Nile Virus.
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- Field-Collected Belgian Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium Mosquitoes are Competent for West Nile Virus Under Different Temperature Conditions.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026Article
- Differential Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Vector-Borne Disease Transmission Across Urban and Rural Settings: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impacts of Urbanization and Habitat Characteristics on the Human Risk of West Nile Disease in the United States.Biology · 2025Article
- Landscape level associations between birds, mosquitoes and microclimates: possible consequences for disease transmission?Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Empirical dynamic modelling and enhanced causal analysis of short-length Culex abundance timeseries with vector correlation metrics.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Patterns of West Nile Virus in the Northeastern United States Using Negative Binomial and Mechanistic Trait-Based Models.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- An epidemiological model for mosquito host selection and temperature-dependent transmission of West Nile virus.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Process-based Model with Temperature, Water, and Lab-derived Data Improves Predictions of Daily Culex pipiens/restuans Mosquito Density.Journal of medical entomology · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of the California mosquito-borne virus surveillance & response plan, 2009-2018.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Assessing the role of two populations of Aedes japonicus japonicus for Zika virus transmission under a constant and a fluctuating temperature regime.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Comparison of Chikungunya Virus and Zika Virus Replication and Transmission Dynamics inThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Virological and Immunological Outcomes in Rhesus Monkeys after Exposure to Dengue Virus-InfectedThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Impact of temperature on the extrinsic incubation period of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
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- Differential Effects of Temperature and Mosquito Genetics Determine Transmissibility of Arboviruses byThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2018Article
- Experimental evaluation of infection, dissemination, and transmission rates for two West Nile virus strains in European Aedes japonicus under a fluctuating temperature regime.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- Dehydration prompts increased activity and blood feeding by mosquitoes.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- How Do Virus-Mosquito Interactions Lead to Viral Emergence?Trends in parasitology · 2018Review
- Dynamics of West Nile virus evolution in mosquito vectors.Current opinion in virology · 2016Review
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Abstract
West Nile virus (WNV) is an important cause of disease in humans and animals. Risk of WNV infection varies seasonally, with the greatest risk during the warmest parts of the year due in part to the accelerated extrinsic incubation rate of the virus in mosquitoes. Rates of extrinsic incubation have been shown in constant-temperature studies to increase as an approximately linear function of temperature, but for other vector-borne pathogens, such as malaria or dengue virus, nonlinear relationships have been demonstrated under cycling temperatures near the thermal limits of pathogen replication. Using typical daily air temperature profiles from three key periods of WNV amplification in a hyperendemic area of WNV activity in California's Central Valley, as well as a fourth temperature profile based on exposures that would result from daily mosquito host-seeking and resting behavior, we explored the impacts of cycling temperatures on WNV transmission by Culex tarsalis Coquillett, one of the principal vectors in the western United States. The daily cycling temperature ranges studied were representative of those that occur across much of California, but they did not significantly alter the extrinsic incubation period of WNV compared with estimates from mean temperatures alone. This suggests that within the relatively broad range we studied, WNV incubation rates are a simple function of mean temperature. Realistic daily temperature patterns that reflected mosquitoes' avoidance of daytime high temperatures during summer reduced transmission over time compared with air temperatures, indicating that adjustment for mosquito exposure temperatures would be prudent for calculating risk.
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