Journal
VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES
Volume 17, Issue 8, Pages 567-575Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2017.2124
Keywords
Culex flavivirus; epidemiology; virus ecology; West Nile virus
Funding
- National Science Foundation/National Institutes of Health Ecology of Infectious Diseases Program [0840403]
- National Institutes of Health T32 Parasite and Vector Biology Training Program through the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Culex flavivirus (CxFV) is an insect-specific flavivirus infecting Culex mosquitoes, which are important vectors of West Nile virus (WNV). CxFV and WNV cocirculate in nature and coinfect Culex mosquitoes, including in a WNV hotspot'' in suburban Chicago. We previously identified a positive association between CxFV and WNV in mosquito pools collected from suburban Chicago in 2006. To further investigate this phenomenon, we compared the spatial and temporal distribution of CxFV during an interepidemic year (2011) and an epidemic year (2012) for WNV. Both viruses were more prevalent in mosquito pools in 2012 compared to 2011. During both years, the CxFV infection status of mosquito pools was associated with environmental factors such as habitat type and precipitation frequency rather than coinfection with WNV. These results support the idea that WNV and CxFV are ecologically associated, perhaps because both viruses respond to similar environmental drivers of mosquito populations.
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