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@article{De:2025:10.1016/j.idm.2024.12.009,
author = {De, Nardi A and Marini, G and Dorigatti, I and Rosà, R and Tamba, M and Gelmini, L and Prosperi, A and Menegale, F and Poletti, P and Calzolari, M and Pugliese, A},
doi = {10.1016/j.idm.2024.12.009},
journal = {Infectious Disease Modelling},
pages = {375--386},
title = {Quantifying West Nile virus circulation in the avian host population in Northern Italy},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2024.12.009},
volume = {10},
year = {2025}
}
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TY - JOUR
AB - West Nile virus (WNV) is one of the most threatening mosquito-borne pathogens in Italy where hundreds of human cases were recorded during the last decade. Here, we estimated the WNV incidence in the avian population in the Emilia-Romagna region through a modelling framework which enabled us to eventually assess the fraction of birds that present anti-WNV antibodies at the end of each epidemiological season. We fitted an SIR model to ornithological data, consisting of 18,989 specimens belonging to Corvidae species collected between 2013 and 2022: every year from May to November birds are captured or shot and tested for WNV genome presence. We found that the incidence peaks between mid-July and late August, infected corvids seem on average 17% more likely to be captured with respect to susceptible ones and seroprevalence was estimated to be larger than other years at the end of 2018, consistent with the anomalous number of recorded human infections. Thanks to our modelling study we quantified WNV infection dynamics in the corvid community, which is still poorly investigated despite its importance for the virus circulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is among the first studies providing quantitative information on infection and immunity in the bird population, yielding new important insights on WNV transmission dynamics.
AU - De,Nardi A
AU - Marini,G
AU - Dorigatti,I
AU - Rosà,R
AU - Tamba,M
AU - Gelmini,L
AU - Prosperi,A
AU - Menegale,F
AU - Poletti,P
AU - Calzolari,M
AU - Pugliese,A
DO - 10.1016/j.idm.2024.12.009
EP - 386
PY - 2025///
SN - 2468-2152
SP - 375
TI - Quantifying West Nile virus circulation in the avian host population in Northern Italy
T2 - Infectious Disease Modelling
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2024.12.009
VL - 10
ER -