Meteorological and environmental drivers of West Nile virus prevalence in Culex pipiens mosquitoes in Emilia-Romagna, Italy in 2013 to 2022.

ABSTRACT: As West Nile Virus (WNV) is expanding its geographical range across Europe, there is an urgent need to characterise and better understand its transmission drivers to inform public health surveillance, disease control, and preparedness planning. We utilised 10 consecutive years of large-scale and fine-resolution WNV entomological field surveillance data from the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy, to evaluate the relationships between WNV infection rates in Culex mosquitoes and environmental and climatic conditions as well as WNV presence in the avian reservoir. We used fine-scale spatiotemporal regression models including non-linearities, to assess the drivers of presence and prevalence of WNV-positive mosquitoes. We validated the model estimates against reported cases of human WNV ne

SUBMITTER: Cox VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12680267 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature