ArticleEcoHealth2017
An Integrative Eco-Epidemiological Analysis of West Nile Virus Transmission.
Article in EcoHealth, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fine-scale heterogeneity and local amplification of West Nile virus in urban environments in Berlin.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The ecology of biting: buzzing through the main ecological, environmental and biological drivers of mosquito-borne diseases.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Advancements and Challenges in Addressing Zoonotic Viral Infections with Epidemic and Pandemic Threats.Viruses · 2025Review
- Is Culex modestus a New Usutu virus vector?Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Culex modestus: the overlooked mosquito vector.Parasites & vectors · 2023Review
- Spatial and temporal dynamics of West Nile virus between Africa and Europe.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Comparison of West Nile Virus Disease in Humans and Horses: Exploiting Similarities for Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance.Viruses · 2023Review
- Vector role and human biting activity of Anophelinae mosquitoes in different landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Establishment ofmSphere · 2021Article
- Predicting West Nile virus transmission in North American bird communities using phylogenetic mixed effects models and eBird citizen science data.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- West Nile virus transmission and human infection risk in Veneto (Italy): a modelling analysis.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
West Nile disease, caused by the West Nile virus (WNV), is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease affecting humans and horses that involves wild birds as amplifying hosts. The mechanisms of WNV transmission remain unclear in Europe where the occurrence of outbreaks has dramatically increased in recent years. We used a dataset on the competence, distribution, abundance, diversity and dispersal of wild bird hosts and mosquito vectors to test alternative hypotheses concerning the transmission of WNV in Southern France. We modelled the successive processes of introduction, amplification, dispersal and spillover of WNV to incidental hosts based on host-vector contact rates on various land cover types and over four seasons. We evaluated the relative importance of the mechanisms tested using two independent serological datasets of WNV antibodies collected in wild birds and horses. We found that the same transmission processes (seasonal virus introduction by migratory birds, Culex modestus mosquitoes as amplifying vectors, heterogeneity in avian host competence, absence of 'dilution effect') best explain the spatial variations in WNV seroprevalence in the two serological datasets. Our results provide new insights on the pathways of WNV introduction, amplification and spillover and the contribution of bird and mosquito species to WNV transmission in Southern France.
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