Understanding the impacts of climate change on vectors and vector-borne diseases in Catalonia: West Nile fever and tick-borne diseases.

Start date: 30/01/2024
End date: 29/01/2026
Project Code: A4330_14687
Acronym: VBD-WNV

PROJECT TYPE

Projectes R+D Plurianyals

Program

Animal health

Responsible

Busquets, Núria

Principal Investigator - Mosquitovir
- nuria.busquets@irta.cat

OBJECTIVE 1: Identify the areas and periods at risk of WNV transmission in Catalonia.
OBJECTIVE 2. Determination of the effect of climate change in vectorial capacity of Culex pipiens
collected where WNV lineage 2 is circulating.
OBJECTIVE 3. Determination of the effect of two Mediterranean climates present in Catalonia in the
ability WNV to overcome the winter within mosquitoes.