Insights into the spatiotemporal dynamics of West Nile virus transmission in emerging scenarios.

ABSTRACT: The incidence of West Nile fever (WNF) is highly variable in emerging areas, making it difficult to identify risk periods. Using clinical case records has important biases in understanding the transmission dynamics of West Nile virus (WNV) because asymptomatic infections are frequent. However, estimating virus exposure in sentinel species could help achieve this goal at varying spatiotemporal scales. To identify the determinants of inter-annual variation in WNV transmission rates, we designed a 15-year longitudinal seroepidemiological study (2005-2020) in five environmentally diverse areas of southwestern Spain. We modeled individual annual area-dependent exposure risk based on potential environmental and host predictors using generalized linear mixed models. Further, we analyzed the weigh

SUBMITTER: Casades-Marti L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288089 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature