Using species distribution models to predict potential hot-spots for Rift Valley Fever establishment in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Vector borne diseases are a continuing global threat to both human and animal health. The ability of vectors such as mosquitos to cover large distances and cross country borders undetected provide an ever-present threat of pathogen spread. Many diseases can infect multiple vector species, such that even if the climate is not hospitable for an invasive species, indigenous species may be susceptible and capable of transmission such that one incursion event could lead to disease establishment in these species. Here we present a consensus modelling methodology to estimate the habitat suitability for presence of mosquito species in the UK deemed competent for Rift Valley fever virus (RVF) and demonstrate its application in an assessment of the relative risk of establishment of RVF virus in the

SUBMITTER: Simons RRL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6927579 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature