The challenge of West Nile virus in Europe: knowledge gaps and research priorities

Author:

Rizzoli A12,Jiménez-Clavero M A23,Barzon L4,Cordioli P5,Figuerola J6,Koraka P7,Martina B8,Moreno A9,Nowotny N1011,Pardigon N12,Sanders N13,Ulbert S14,Tenorio A15

Affiliation:

1. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, San Michele all’Adige (TN), Italy

2. These authors contributed equally to this manuscript

3. Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Valdeolmos, Spain

4. Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

5. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna "Bruno Ubertini", Brescia, Italy

6. Wetland Ecology Department, Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville, Spain

7. Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

8. Viroscience lab, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

9. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e de L’Emilia Romagna, Brescia, Italy

10. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

11. Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

12. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

13. Laboratory of Gene Therapy, Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

14. Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany

15. Arbovirus and imported viral diseases, Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

West Nile virus (WNV) is continuously spreading across Europe, and other continents, i.e. North and South America and many other regions of the world. Despite the overall sporadic nature of outbreaks with cases of West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND) in Europe, the spillover events have increased and the virus has been introduced into new areas. The high genetic diversity of the virus, with remarkable phenotypic variation, and its endemic circulation in several countries, require an intensification of the integrated and multidisciplinary research efforts built under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (FP7). It is important to better clarify several aspects of WNV circulation in Europe, including its ecology, genomic diversity, pathogenicity, transmissibility, diagnosis and control options, under different environmental and socio-economic scenarios. Identifying WNV endemic as well as infection-free areas is becoming a need for the development of human vaccines and therapeutics and the application of blood and organs safety regulations. This review, produced as a joint initiative among European experts and based on analysis of 118 scientific papers published between 2004 and 2014, provides the state of knowledge on WNV and highlights the existing knowledge and research gaps that need to be addressed with high priority in Europe and neighbouring countries.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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