Transmission and control of African horse sickness in the Netherlands: A model analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Backer, Jantien A ^a   Nodelijk, Gonnie ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE COURSE; EUTHANASIA; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION CONTROL; INSECT BITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHIRONOMIDAE; EQUIDAE;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79961164799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023066     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Mellor PS, Hamblin C, (2004) African horse sickness. Vet Res 35: 445-466.
2. Rodriguez M, Hooghuis H, Castaño M, (1992) African horse sickness in Spain. Vet Microbiol 33: 129-142.
3. Mehlhorn H, Walldorf V, Klimpel S, Jahn B, Jaeger F, et al. (2007) First occurrence of Culicoides obsoletus-transmitted Bluetongue virus epidemic in Central Europe. Parasitol Res 101: 219-228.
4. Elbers ARW, Backx A, Meroc E, Gerbier G, Staubach C, et al. (2008) Field observations during the bluetongue serotype 8 epidemic in 2006 I. Detection of first outbreaks and clinical signs in sheep and cattle in Belgium, France and The Netherlands. Prev Vet Med 87: 21-30.
5. Mellor PS, Boned J, Hamblin C, Graham S, (1990) Isolations of African horse sickness virus from vector insects made during the 1988 epizootic in Spain. Epidemiol Infect 105: 447-454.
6. Rijksen C, Visser-Riedstra EK, (2005) Inventarisatie paardenhouderij (in Dutch). Technical report, Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR.
7. Lord CC, Woolhouse MEJ, Heesterbeek JAP, Mellor PS, (1996) Vector-borne diseases and the basic reproduction number: a case study of African horse sickness. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 10: 19-28.
8. Lord CC, Woolhouse MEJ, Rawlings P, Mellor PS, (1996) Simulation studies of African horse sickness and Culicoides imicola (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). J Med Entomol 33: 328-338.
9. Lord CC, Woolhouse MEJ, Mellor PS, (1997) Simulation studies of vaccination strategies in African horse sickness. Vaccine 15: 519-524.
10. Baylis M, O'Connell L, Mellor PS, (2009) Rates of bluetongue virus transmission between Culicoides sonorensis and sheep. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 22: 228-237.
11. Meiswinkel R, Goffredo M, Leijs P, Conte A, (2008) The Culicoides snapshot: A novel approach used to assess vector densities widely and rapidly during the 2006 outbreak of bluetongue (BT) in The Netherlands. Prev Vet Med 87: 98-118.
12. Szmaragd C, Wilson AJ, Carpenter S, Wood JLN, Mellor PS, et al. (2009) A modeling framework to describe the transmission of bluetongue virus within and between farms in Great Britain. PLoS ONE 4: e7741.
13. Szmaragd C, Gunn GJ, Gubbins S, (2010) Assessing the consequences of an incursion of a vectorborne disease. II. Spread of bluetongue in Scotland and impact of vaccination. Epidemics 2: 139147.
14. Gubbins S, Szmaragd C, Burgin L, Wilson A, Volkova V, et al. (2010) Assessing the consequences of an incursion of a vector-borne disease I. Identifying feasible incursion scenarios for bluetongue in Scotland. Epidemics 2: 148154.
15. Article 8, Council Directive 2001/82/EC (2001) L311: 1-66 Commission of the European Communities, Official Journal of the European Union.
16. Keeling MJ, Rohani P, (2008) Modeling infectious diseases in humans and animals Princeton University Press (ISBN: 978-0-691-11617-4).
17. Mullens BA, Holbrook FR, (1991) Temperature effects on the gonotrophic cycle of Culicoides variipennis. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Agency 7: 588-591.
18. Wittmann EJ, Mellor PS, Baylis M, (2002) Effect of temperature on the transmission of orbiviruses by the biting midge, Culicoides sonorensis. Vaccine 20: 1079-1088.
19. Diekmann O, Heesterbeek JAP, (2000) Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases John Wiley & Sons Ltd (ISBN: 0 471 98682 9).
20. Heesterbeek JAP, Roberts MG, (1995) Threshold quantities of infectious diseases in periodic environments. J Biol Syst 3: 779-787.
21. Scotter DR, Lamb KP, Hassan E, (1971) An insect dispersal parameter. Ecology 52: 174-177.
22. Lillie TH, Marquardt WC, Jones RH, (1981) The flight range of Culicoides variipennis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). The Canadian Entomologist 113: 419-426.
23. McKay MD, Beckman RJ, Conover WJ, (1979) A comparison of three methods for selecting values of input variables in the analysis of output from a computer code. Technometrics 21: 239-245.
24. Schwarz G, (1978) Estimating the dimension of a model. The Annals of Statistics 6: 461-464.
25. Kendall M, (1938) A new measure of rank correlation. Biometrika 30: 81-89.
26. House JA, Thomas M, Dubourget P, House C, Mebus CA, (1994) Further studies on the efficacy of an inactivated African horse sickness serotype 4 vaccine. Vaccine 12: 142-144.
27. Roy P, Bishop DHL, Howard S, Aitchison H, Erasmus B, (1996) Recombinant baculovirussynthesized African horsesickness virus (AHSV) outer-capsid protein VP2 provides protection against virulent AHSV challenge. J of Gen Vir 77: 2053-2057.
28. Scanlen M, Paweska JT, Verschoor JA, Van Dijk AA, (2002) The protective efficacy of a recombinant VP2-based African horsesickness subunit vaccine candidate is determined by adjuvant. Vaccine 20: 1079-1088.
29. Sloet van Oldruitenborgh MM, (2009) Inventarisation of the presence of Culicoides species (midges) at horses in The Netherlands (in Dutch). Technical report, Department of Equine Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University.
30. Gubbins S, Carpenter S, Baylis M, Wood JLN, Mellor PS, (2008) Assessing the risk of bluetongue to UK livestock: uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of a temperature-dependent model for the basic reproduction number. J R Soc Interface 5: 363-371.
31. Hartemink NA, Purse BV, Meiswinkel R, Brown HE, de Koeijer A, et al. (2009) Mapping the basic reproduction number (R0) for vector-borne diseases: A case study on bluetongue virus. Epidemics 1: 153-161.