Terrestrial Bird Migration and West Nile Virus Circulation, United States

Swetnam, Daniele; Widen, Steven G.; Wood, Thomas G.; Reyna, Martin; Wilkerson, Lauren; Debboun, Mustapha; Symonds, Dreda A.; Mead, Daniel G.; Beaty, Barry J.; Guzman, Hilda; Tesh, Robert B.; Barrett, Alan D.T.

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Terrestrial Bird Migration and West Nile Virus Circulation, United States

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December 2018
By Swetnam, Daniele ; Widen, Steven G. ; Wood, Thomas G. ; ...

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Swetnam, Daniele ; Widen, Steven G. ; Wood, Thomas G. ; Reyna, Martin ; Wilkerson, Lauren ; Debboun, Mustapha ; Symonds, Dreda A. ; Mead, Daniel G. ; Beaty, Barry J. ; Guzman, Hilda ; Tesh, Robert B. ; Barrett, Alan D.T.
Description:

Host migration and emerging pathogens are strongly associated, especially with regard to zoonotic diseases. West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquitoborne pathogen capable of causing severe, sometimes fatal, neuroinvasive disease in humans, is maintained in highly mobile avian hosts. Using phylogeographic approaches, we investigated the relationship between WNV circulation in the United States and the flight paths of terrestrial birds. We demonstrated southward migration of WNV in the eastern flyway and northward migration in the central flyway, which is consistent with the looped flight paths of many terrestrial birds. We also identified 3 optimal locations for targeted WNV surveillance campaigns in the United States-Illinois, New York, and Texas. These results illustrate the value of multidisciplinary approaches to surveillance of infectious diseases, especially zoonotic diseases.
Subjects:

Animal Migration Animals Bayes Theorem Birds High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Humans Incidence Phylogeny Phylogeography Rna, Viral West Nile Fever West Nile Virus
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 24(12):2184-2194
Pubmed ID:

30457531
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC6256381
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

HHSN272201000040I/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; N01AI25489/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; N01AI30027/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; R01 AI067847/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
Place as Subject:

United States
Location:

North America
Volume:

24
Issue:

12
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:a151a2169999ea2b3e6b330524275242d8b03e87a429eb6057c2d2754cd56094
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/61344/cdc_61344_DS1.pdf
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