Effects of Scale on Modeling West Nile Virus Disease Risk.

ABSTRACT: Modeling vector-borne diseases is best conducted when heterogeneity among interacting biotic and abiotic processes is captured. However, the successful integration of these complex processes is difficult, hindered by a lack of understanding of how these relationships influence disease transmission across varying scales. West Nile virus (WNV) is the most important mosquito-borne disease in the United States. Vectored by Culex mosquitoes and maintained in the environment by avian hosts, the virus can spill over into humans and horses, sometimes causing severe neuroinvasive illness. Several modeling studies have evaluated drivers of WNV disease risk, but nearly all have done so at broad scales and have reported mixed results of the effects of common explanatory variables. As a result,

SUBMITTER: Uelmen JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790096 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature