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ArticleOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2021

A climate-dependent spatial epidemiological model for the transmission risk of West Nile virus at local scale.

Anastasia Angelou, Ioannis Kioutsioukis, Nikolaos I Stilianakis

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Article in One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Anastasia AngelouDepartment of Physics, University of Patras, Greece.
Ioannis KioutsioukisDepartment of Physics, University of Patras, Greece.
Nikolaos I StilianakisEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, initial elements of a modelling framework aimed to become a spatial forecasting model for the transmission risk of West Nile virus (WNV) are presented. The model describes the dynamics of a WNV epidemic in population health states of mosquitoes, birds and humans and was applied to the case of Greece for the period 2010-2019. Calibration was performed with the available epidemiological data from the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the environmental data from the European Union's earth observation program, Copernicus. Numerical results of the model for each municipality were evaluated against observations. Specifically, the occurrence of WNV, the number of infected humans and the week of incidence predicted from the model were compared to the corresponding numbers from observations. The results suggest that dynamic downscaling of a climate-dependent epidemiological model is feasible down-to roughly 80km

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Climate-epidemiologic modelDownscalingMunicipalityValidationWeatherWest Nile Virus

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PMID34632040
PMCPMC8493582

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