96110 20210902121838.0 doi 10.3390/v12101158 sideral 120756 ART-2020-120756 eng Aguilar-Vega, C. Identifying spanish areas at more risk of monthly BTV transmission with a basic reproduction number approach 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Bluetongue virus (BTV) causes a disease that is endemic in Spain and its two major biological vector species, C. imicola and the Obsoletus complex species, differ greatly in their ecology and distribution. Understanding the seasonality of BTV transmission in risk areas is key to improving surveillance and control programs, as well as to better understand the pathogen transmission networks between wildlife and livestock. Here, monthly risk transmission maps were generated using risk categories based on well-known BTV R0 equations and predicted abundances of the two most relevant vectors in Spain. Previously, Culicoides spp. predicted abundances in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands were obtained using remote sensing data and random forest machine learning algorithm. Risk transmission maps were externally assessed with the estimated date of infection of BTV-1 and BTV-4 historical outbreaks. Our results highlight the differences in risk transmission during April-October, June-August being the period with higher R0 values. Likewise, a natural barrier has been identified between northern and central-southern areas at risk that may hamper BTV spread between them. Our results can be relevant to implement risk-based interventions for the prevention, control and surveillance of BTV and other diseases shared between livestock and wildlife host populations. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/727393/EU/Understanding pathogen, livestock, environment interactions involving bluetongue virus/PALE-Blu This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 727393-PALE-Blu info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 5.048 2020 VIROLOGY 10 / 36 = 0.278 2020 Q2 T1 1.828 2020 Virology 2020 Q1 Infectious Diseases 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Bosch, J. Fernández-Carrión, E. Lucientes, J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-0663-8411 Sánchez-Vizcaíno, J.M. 1009 773 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Patología Animal Área Sanidad Animal 12, 10 (2020), 1158 [20 pp] VIRUSES-BASEL VIRUSES-BASEL 1999-4915 843579 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/96110/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 484555 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/96110/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:96110 articulos driver 2021-09-02-10:21:47 ARTICLE