Identifying Spanish Areas at More Risk of Monthly BTV Transmission with a Basic Reproduction Number Approach.

ABSTRACT: Bluetongue virus (BTV) causes a disease that is endemic in Spain and its two major biological vector species, C. imicola and the Obsoletus complex species, differ greatly in their ecology and distribution. Understanding the seasonality of BTV transmission in risk areas is key to improving surveillance and control programs, as well as to better understand the pathogen transmission networks between wildlife and livestock. Here, monthly risk transmission maps were generated using risk categories based on well-known BTV R₀ equations and predicted abundances of the two most relevant vectors in Spain. Previously, Culicoides spp. predicted abundances in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands were obtained using remote sensing data and random forest machine learnin

SUBMITTER: Aguilar-Vega C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7602074 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature