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Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe
West Nile Virus (WNV) is a globally important mosquito borne virus, with significant implications for human and animal health. The emergence and spread of new lineages, and increased pathogenicity, is the cause of escalating public health concern. Pinpointing the environmental conditions that favour...
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25803814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121158 |
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author | Marcantonio, Matteo Rizzoli, Annapaola Metz, Markus Rosà, Roberto Marini, Giovanni Chadwick, Elizabeth Neteler, Markus |
author_facet | Marcantonio, Matteo Rizzoli, Annapaola Metz, Markus Rosà, Roberto Marini, Giovanni Chadwick, Elizabeth Neteler, Markus |
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description | West Nile Virus (WNV) is a globally important mosquito borne virus, with significant implications for human and animal health. The emergence and spread of new lineages, and increased pathogenicity, is the cause of escalating public health concern. Pinpointing the environmental conditions that favour WNV circulation and transmission to humans is challenging, due both to the complexity of its biological cycle, and the under-diagnosis and reporting of epidemiological data. Here, we used remote sensing and GIS to enable collation of multiple types of environmental data over a continental spatial scale, in order to model annual West Nile Fever (WNF) incidence across Europe and neighbouring countries. Multi-model selection and inference were used to gain a consensus from multiple linear mixed models. Climate and landscape were key predictors of WNF outbreaks (specifically, high precipitation in late winter/early spring, high summer temperatures, summer drought, occurrence of irrigated croplands and highly fragmented forests). Identification of the environmental conditions associated with WNF outbreaks is key to enabling public health bodies to properly focus surveillance and mitigation of West Nile virus impact, but more work needs to be done to enable accurate predictions of WNF risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-43725762015-04-04 Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe Marcantonio, Matteo Rizzoli, Annapaola Metz, Markus Rosà, Roberto Marini, Giovanni Chadwick, Elizabeth Neteler, Markus PLoS One Research Article West Nile Virus (WNV) is a globally important mosquito borne virus, with significant implications for human and animal health. The emergence and spread of new lineages, and increased pathogenicity, is the cause of escalating public health concern. Pinpointing the environmental conditions that favour WNV circulation and transmission to humans is challenging, due both to the complexity of its biological cycle, and the under-diagnosis and reporting of epidemiological data. Here, we used remote sensing and GIS to enable collation of multiple types of environmental data over a continental spatial scale, in order to model annual West Nile Fever (WNF) incidence across Europe and neighbouring countries. Multi-model selection and inference were used to gain a consensus from multiple linear mixed models. Climate and landscape were key predictors of WNF outbreaks (specifically, high precipitation in late winter/early spring, high summer temperatures, summer drought, occurrence of irrigated croplands and highly fragmented forests). Identification of the environmental conditions associated with WNF outbreaks is key to enabling public health bodies to properly focus surveillance and mitigation of West Nile virus impact, but more work needs to be done to enable accurate predictions of WNF risk. Public Library of Science 2015-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4372576/ /pubmed/25803814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121158 Text en © 2015 Marcantonio et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marcantonio, Matteo Rizzoli, Annapaola Metz, Markus Rosà, Roberto Marini, Giovanni Chadwick, Elizabeth Neteler, Markus Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe |
title | Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe |
title_full | Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe |
title_fullStr | Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe |
title_full_unstemmed | Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe |
title_short | Identifying the Environmental Conditions Favouring West Nile Virus Outbreaks in Europe |
title_sort | identifying the environmental conditions favouring west nile virus outbreaks in europe |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25803814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121158 |
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