Vector competence of northern and southern European Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes for West Nile virus across a gradient of temperatures

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 358-364

  Vogels, C B F ^a   Goertz G P ^a   Pijlman, G P ^a   Koenraadt, C J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

arbovirus; Culex pipiens complex; infection; Italy; northern house mosquito; The Netherlands; transmission

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIVITY; LIMITING FACTOR; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOSQUITO; PEST OUTBREAK; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPOSURE; ITALY; LOW TEMPERATURE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; THORAX; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; CULEX; FEMALE; INSECT VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ITALY; NETHERLANDS;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; TEMPERATURE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 85026418388     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12251     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Adelman, Z.N., Anderson, M.A.E., Wiley, M.R. et al. (2013) Cooler temperatures destabilize RNA interference and increasesusceptibility of disease vector mosquitoes to viral infection. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 7, e2239.
2. Alto, B.W. & Bettinardi, D. (2013) Temperature and dengue virus infection in mosquitoes: independent effects on the immature and adult stages. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 88, 497–505.
3. Brustolin, M., Talavera, S., Santamaría, C. et al. (2016) Culex pipiens and Stegomyia albopicta (= Aedes albopictus) populations as vectors for lineage 1 and 2 West Nile virus in Europe. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 30, 166–173.
4. Buckley, A., Dawson, A. & Gould, E.A. (2006) Detection of seroconversion to West Nile virus, Usutu virus and Sindbis virus in UK sentinel chickens. Virology Journal, 3, 1–6.
5. Byrne, K. & Nichols, R.A. (1999) Culex pipiens in London underground tunnels: differentiation between surface and subterranean populations. Heredity, 82, 7–15.
6. Calistri, P., Giovannini, A., Hubalek, Z. et al. (2010) Epidemiology of West Nile in Europe and in the Mediterranean basin. The Open Virology Journal, 4, 29–37.
7. Chamberlain, R.W. & Sudia, W.D. (1961) Mechanism of transmission of viruses by mosquitoes. Annual Review of Entomology, 6, 371–390.
8. Chancey, C., Grinev, A., Volkova, E. & Rios, M. (2015) The global ecology and epidemiology of West Nile virus. BioMed Research International, 2015, 20.
9. Cornel, A.J., Jupp, P.G. & Blackburn, N.K. (1993) Environmental temperature on the vector competence of Culex univittatus (Diptera: Culicidae) for West Nile virus. Journal of Medical Entomology, 30, 449–456.
10. Danforth, M.E., Reisen, W.K. & Barker, C.M. (2016) The impact of cycling temperature on the transmission of West Nile virus. Journal of Medical Entomology, 53, 681–686.
11. Fortuna, C., Remoli, M.E., Di Luca, M. et al. (2015) Experimental studies on comparison of the vector competence of four Italian Culex pipiens populations for West Nile virus. Parasites & Vectors, 8, 1–10.
12. Fritz, M.L., Walker, E.-D., Miller, J.-R., Severson, D.-W. & Dworkin, I. (2015) Divergent host preferences of above- and below-ground Culex pipiens mosquitoes and their hybrid offspring. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 29, 115–123.
13. Fros, J.J., Geertsema, C., Vogels, C.B. et al. (2015a) West Nile Virus: high transmission rate in north-western European mosquitoes indicates its epidemic potential and warrants increased surveillance. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9, e0003956.
14. Fros, J.J., Miesen, P., Vogels, C.B. et al. (2015b) Comparative Usutu and West Nile virus transmission potential by local Culex pipiens mosquitoes in north-western Europe. One Health, 1, 31–36.
15. Hardy, J.L., Houk, E.J., Kramer, L.D. & Reeves, W.C. (1983) Intrinsic factors affecting vector competence of mosquitoes for arboviruses. Annual Review of Entomology, 28, 229–262.
16. Hayes, E.B., Komar, N., Nasci, R.S., Montgomery, S.P., O'Leary, D.R. & Campbell, G.L. (2005) Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of West Nile virus disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11, 1167–1173.
17. Haylock, M.-R., Hofstra, N., Klein Tank, A.-M.-G., Klok, E.J., Jones, P.D. & New, M.C.D. (2008) A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950–2006. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 113, D20119.
18. Kilpatrick, A.M., Kramer, L.D., Campbell, S.R., Alleyne, E.O., Dobson, A.P. & Daszak, P. (2005) West Nile virus risk assessment and the bridge vector paradigm. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11, 425–429.
19. Kilpatrick, A.M., Meola, M.A., Moudy, R.M. & Kramer, L.D. (2008) Temperature, viral genetics, and the transmission of West Nile virus by Culex pipiens mosquitoes. PLoS Pathogens, 4, e1000092.
20. Kilpatrick, A.M., Fonseca, D.M., Ebel, G.D., Reddy, M.R. & Kramer, L.D. (2010) Spatial and temporal variation in vector competence of Culex pipiens and Cx. restuans mosquitoes for West Nile virus. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83, 607–613.
21. Kramer, L.D., Styer, L.M. & Ebel, G.D. (2008) A global perspective on the epidemiology of West Nile virus. Annual Review of Entomology, 53, 61–81.
22. Lambrechts, L., Paaijmans, K.P., Fansiri, T. et al. (2011) Impact of daily temperature fluctuations on dengue virus transmission by Aedes aegypti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 7460–7465.
23. Leggewie, M., Badusche, M., Rudolf, M. et al. (2016) Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium populations from Central Europe are susceptible to West Nile virus infection. One Health, 2, 88–94.
24. Lim, S.M., Brault, A.C., van Amerongen, G. et al. (2014) Susceptibility of European jackdaws (Corvus monedula) to experimental infection with lineage 1 and 2 West Nile viruses. Journal of General Virology, 95, 1320–1329.
25. Lim, S.M., Brault, A.C., van Amerongen, G. et al. (2015) Susceptibility of carrion crows to experimental infection with lineage 1 and 2 West Nile Viruses. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 21, 1357.
26. Linke, S., Niedrig, M., Kaiser, A. et al. (2007) Serologic evidence of West Nile virus infections in wild birds captured in Germany. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77, 358–364.
27. Papa, A., Xanthopoulou, K., Gewehr, S. & Mourelatos, S. (2011) Detection of West Nile virus lineage 2 in mosquitoes during a human outbreak in Greece. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 17, 1176–1180.
28. R Core Team (2016) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
29. Reisen, W.K., Meyer, R.P., Presser, S.B. & Hardy, J.L. (1993) Effect of temperature on the transmission of Western Equine Encephalomyelitis and St. Louis Encephalitis Viruses by Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 30, 151–160.
30. Reisen, W.K., Fang, Y. & Martinez, V.M. (2006) Effects of temperature on the transmission of West Nile virus by Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 43, 309–317.
31. Vaidyanathan, R. & Scott, T.W. (2007) Geographic variation in vector competence for West Nile virus in the Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) complex in California. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 7, 193–198.
32. Vogels, C.B.F., Van De Peppel, L.J.J., Van Vliet, A.J.H. et al. (2015) Winter activity and aboveground hybridization between the two biotypes of the West Nile virus vector Culex pipiens. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 15, 619–626.
33. Vogels, C.B.F., Fros, J.J., Göertz, G.P., Pijlman, G.P. & Koenraadt, C.J.M. (2016) Vector competence of northern European Culex pipiens biotypes and hybrids for West Nile virus is differentially affected by temperature. Parasites & Vectors, 9, 1–7.
34. Wheeler, S.S., Barker, C.M., Fang, Y. et al. (2009) Differential impact of West Nile virus on California birds. The Condor, 111, 1–20.
35. Zouache, K., Fontaine, A., Vega-Rua, A. et al. (2014) Three-way interactions between mosquito population, viral strain and temperature underlying chikungunya virus transmission potential. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 281, 20141078.