West Nile Virus: A Growing Challenge

Bender, Kaye; Thompson, F. E.

doi:10.1097/00000446-200306000-00018

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“…These results on WNV are consistent with those obtained from similar previous analysis of the literature related to other infectious diseases [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. This progress may be attributed to the increase in the awareness of the importance of research in the field of WNV [60][61][62][63][64]. For instance, the steeper increase in the 2000s reflects the spread of virus during those years, when the WNV disease was limited to Mediterranean region, Africa, Asia, and some part of east Europe [6][7][8] prior to the end-1990s.…”

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Global research trends in West Nile virus from 1943 to 2016: a bibliometric analysis

Al-Jabi

2017

Global Health

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BackgroundWest Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging infectious disease which is most commonly transmitted to humans through mosquito, and is considered a major public-health problem worldwide. The aim of the current study is to bibliometrically analyze the quantity and quality of publications indexed in Scopus from different countries to reveal the characteristics of global research output regarding WNV.MethodsThis study is a bibliometric analysis based on the Scopus database. This study focused on identifying WNV publication trends with regard to publication year, publication type, prolific countries, language of publication, as well as, prolific journals, citations, and collaboration patterns.ResultsA total of 4729 publications were considered in this study, which were published between 1943 and 2016. The annual quantity of literature published before 2000 followed a low rate of research growth; while the quantity of publications after 2000 were published in a stage of rapid development. The country with the greatest number of publications in WNV research field was the USA with 2304 (48.7%) publications, followed by France with 224 (4.7%) publications, and Canada with 222 (4.7%) publications. Contributions from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) were considerably small, that is, (n = 519 publications; 11%). All publications related to WNV achieved h-index of 140 and were cited 124,222 times. The median [interquartile range] number of citations per article thus amounts to 9 [2-28]. The USA had the highest h-index of 131. Emerging Infectious Diseases is the most productive journal with 227 articles, followed by Journal of Virology with 162 publications. The result designated that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was ranked the first in terms of publication output, followed by National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.ConclusionsThere is an obvious trend of WNV research after 2000, and countries with high income have more contributions in WNV research field. The research output is low among LMIC. The USA produced the largest number of publications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention obtained the leading position of the institutions in terms of publication output. In general, this study not only presents a full view of global WNV research, but also can contribute for future further research in this field.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Global research trends in West Nile virus from 1943 to 2016: a bibliometric analysis

Al-Jabi

2017

Global Health

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“…Adams et al. (2021); Bender and Thompson (2003); Dean (2020); Franklin et al. (1997); Gagnon‐Dorsa (1990); Harrison (2002); Marchese and Primer (2013); McGhee et al.…”

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Nurses’ perceptions of climate sensitive vector‐borne diseases: A scoping review

Vandenberg

Chircop

Sedgwick

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Public Health Nursing

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Objective: Nurses are well positioned to play an integral role in the mitigation of climate change and climate-driven vector-borne diseases, however, they lack awareness and knowledge about their role. The purpose of this scoping review was to map existing literature on nurses' perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, and experiences with vector-borne diseases, specifically Lyme disease and West Nile virus.Design: A scoping review was conducted using Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review methodology. CINAHL, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium, MEDLINE, APA PsycINFO, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, and Web of Science were searched for English-language publications. The PRISMA-ScR was used. After initial screening as per study protocol, a total of 33 items were reviewed independently by four reviewers.Results: Thirty-three articles, including seven sources from grey literature, met the criteria for this scoping review. Results were mapped according to the five domains of the Guidelines for Undergraduate Nursing Education on Climate-Driven Vector-Borne Diseases.Conclusions: Findings from the review indicate that nurses play a role in climaterelated health effects and should be knowledgeable about vector-borne diseases.However, scant literature exists on nurses' knowledge, perceptions, attitudes toward vector-borne diseases, and practice readiness, signifying a need for further research on this emerging topic.

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“…The disease is spread to humans and other animals via mosquito bites. Recent evidence show that WNV can be transmitted through blood transfusions, organ/tissue transplants, needle stick injury, exposure to infected laboratory specimen and mouth to mouth transmission [1,2,6,18,27].…”

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Mathematical Analysis of West Nile Virus Model with Discrete Delays

Garba

Safi

2013

Acta Mathematica Scientia

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The paper presents the basic model for the transmission dynamics of West Nile virus (WNV). The model, which consists of seven mutually-exclusive compartments representing the birds and vector dynamics, has a locally-asymptotically stable disease-free equilibrium whenever the associated reproduction number (R 0) is less than unity. As reveal in [3, 20], the analyses of the model show the existence of the phenomenon of backward bifurcation (where the stable diseasefree equilibrium of the model co-exists with a stable endemic equilibrium when the reproduction number of the disease is less than unity). It is shown, that the backward bifurcation phenomenon can be removed by substituting the associated standard incidence function with a mass action incidence. Analysis of the reproduction number of the model shows that, the disease will persist, whenever R 0 > 1, and increase in the length of incubation period can help reduce WNV burden in the community if a certain threshold quantities, denoted by ∆ b and ∆ v are negative. On the other hand, increasing the length of the incubation period increases disease burden if ∆ b > 0 and ∆ v > 0. Furthermore, it is shown that adding time delay to the corresponding autonomous model with standard incidence (considered in [2]) does not alter the qualitative dynamics of the autonomous system (with respect to the elimination or persistence of the disease).

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West Nile Virus: A Growing Challenge

Cited by 15 publications

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Global research trends in West Nile virus from 1943 to 2016: a bibliometric analysis

Global research trends in West Nile virus from 1943 to 2016: a bibliometric analysis

Nurses’ perceptions of climate sensitive vector‐borne diseases: A scoping review

Mathematical Analysis of West Nile Virus Model with Discrete Delays

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