ArticleScientific reports2018
Overwintering of West Nile virus in a bird community with a communal crow roost.
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- Indication of West Nile Virus (WNV) Lineage 2 Overwintering among Wild Birds in the Regions of Peloponnese and Western Greece.Veterinary sciences · 2023Article
- The Ongoing Epidemic of West Nile Virus in Greece: The Contribution of Biological Vectors and Reservoirs and the Importance of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors Revisited.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Review
- Detection of West Nile and Usutu Virus RNA in Autumn Season in Wild Avian Hosts in Northern Italy.Viruses · 2023Article
- Assessing the Influence of Climate on the Spatial Pattern of West Nile Virus Incidence in the United States.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Host selection and forage ratio in West Nile virus-transmitting Culex mosquitoes: Challenges and knowledge gaps.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Review
- Modelling the temperature suitability for the risk of West Nile Virus establishment in European Culex pipiens populations.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- West Nile Virus Lineage 2 Overwintering in Italy.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
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- A climate-dependent spatial epidemiological model for the transmission risk of West Nile virus at local scale.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
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- Flavivirus Persistence in Wildlife Populations.Viruses · 2021Review
- Serological Evidence of West Nile Virus in Wild Birds in Bangladesh.Veterinary sciences · 2020Article
- A quantitative comparison of West Nile virus incidence from 2013 to 2018 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
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- Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lineage 2 West Nile Virus That Caused the Largest European Epidemic: Italy 2011-2018.Viruses · 2019Article
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Abstract
In temperate climates, transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) is detectable rarely during the coldest months (late fall through early spring), yet the virus has reappeared consistently during the next warm season. Several mechanisms may contribute to WNV persistence through winter, including bird-to-bird transmission among highly viremic species. Here we consider whether, under realistic scenarios supported by field and laboratory evidence, a winter bird community could sustain WNV through the winter in the absence of mosquitoes. With this purpose we constructed a deterministic model for a community of susceptible birds consisting of communally roosting crows, raptors and other birds. We simulated WNV introduction and subsequent transmission dynamics during the winter under realistic initial conditions and model parameterizations, including plausible contact rates for roosting crows. Model results were used to determine whether the bird community could yield realistic outbreaks that would result in WNV infectious individuals at the end of the winter, which would set up the potential for onward horizontal transmission into summer. Our findings strongly suggest that winter crow roosts could allow for WNV persistence through the winter, and our model results provide synthesis to explain inconclusive results from field studies on WNV overwintering in crow roosts.
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