Effects of climatic and environmental factors on mosquito population inferred from West Nile virus surveillance in Greece.

ABSTRACT: Mosquito-borne diseases' impact on human health is among the most prominent of all communicable diseases. With limited pool of tools to contrast these diseases, public health focus remains preventing mosquito-human contacts. Applying a hierarchical spatio-temporal Bayesian model on West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data from Greece, we aimed to investigate the impact of climatic and environmental factors on Culex mosquitoes' population. Our spatio-temporal analysis confirmed climatic factors as major drivers of WNV-transmitting-Culex mosquitoes population dynamics, with temperature and long periods of moderate-to-warm climate having the strongest positive effect on mosquito abundance. Conversely, rainfall, high humidity, and wind showed a negative impact. The results suggest the presence

SUBMITTER: Ferraccioli F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10620416 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature