RT Journal Article
T1 An African West Nile virus risk map for travellers and clinicians.
A1 García-Carrasco, José María
A1 Muñoz-Gallego, Antonio Román
A1 Olivero-Anarte, Jesús
A1 Segura, Marina
A1 Real-Giménez, Raimundo
K1 Virus del Nilo occidental
K1 Geografía médica
AB West Nile virus (WNV). Due to the difficulty of its diagnosis, little is known about its distribution in Africa. Understanding the geographic extent of risk of WNV infections is a necessity for both travellers and clinicians who advise and treat them, since there is no human vaccine. To date, there is no risk map for WNV infections in humans in Africa. Having a high-resolution risk map for the virus could be of relevance before the trip, to take preventive measures, and after the trip, for appropriate diagnosis of the disease. Virus detection in humans along the African continent were collected from official reports, and published scientific research for the period 1940 to 2020, and then geo-referenced in order to use biogeographical modelling for WNV. Models were based on fuzzy logic and machine learning algorithms and were designed to identify the environmental drivers that explain the distribution of human cases and to locate favourable areas for infections. We elaborated a high-resolution risk map for WNV infections that highlights favourable areas for infections in Africa. Although WNV infections are widely spread across Africa, the risk of the disease is not homogenously distributed. Popular tourist destinations such as Morocco, Tunisia, and South Africa, are high-risk areas for WNV infection.
YR 2022
FD 2022-12-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29009
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29009
LA eng
NO García-Carrasco JM, Muñoz A-R, Olivero J, Segura M, Real R (2023) An African West Nile virus risk map for travellers and clinicians. Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases 52: 102529.
NO J.M.G.C. received a FPU grant from the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (FPU17/02834). A.-R.M. is supported by project UMA18-FEDERJA-276 (Programa Operativo FEDER, Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad, Junta de Andalucía). J.O. is supported by the Project CGL2016-76747-R from the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad and FEDER Funds.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 25 ene 2026