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Periodic Phenomena and Driving Mechanisms in Transmission of West Nile Virus with Maturation Time

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West Nile virus (WNv) transmission shows both seasonal pattern in every single year and cyclic pattern over years. In this paper we formulate a compartmental model with bird demographics and maturation time of mosquitoes during metamorphosis to study the impact of ambient temperature on the transmission and recurrence of disease. We show that avian birds serve as a reservoir of viruses, whilst maturation time affects disease transmission in sophisticated ways. It turns out that large maturation delay will lead to the extinction of mosquitoes and the disease; small maturation delay will stabilize the epidemic level of the disease; and intermediate maturation delay will cause sustainable oscillations of mosquito population, recurrence of diseases, and even mixed-mode oscillation of diseases with an alternation between oscillations of distinct large and small amplitudes. With bifurcation theory, we prove that temperature can drive the oscillation of mosquito population, which leads recurrence of WNv through the incidence interaction between mosquitoes and hosts, while the biting and transmission process itself will not generate sustained oscillations. Our results provide a sound explanation for understanding interactions between vectors and hosts, and driving mechanisms of periodic phenomena in the transmission of WNv and other mosquito-borne diseases.

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Funding was provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (CA), Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) (CA).

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 43606, USA

    Chunhua Shan

  2. Department of Mathematics, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, 31907, USA

    Guihong Fan

  3. LAMPS and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

    Huaiping Zhu

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Shan was partially supported by the startup fund 110799 from the University of Toledo and the Simons Foundation-Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians 523360. Fan was partially supported by 2018 Summer Research Incentive Grant from the Dean of College of Letters and Sciences at Columbus State University. Zhu was partially supported by NSERC and CIHR of Canada.

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Shan, C., Fan, G. & Zhu, H. Periodic Phenomena and Driving Mechanisms in Transmission of West Nile Virus with Maturation Time. J Dyn Diff Equat 32, 1003–1026 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10884-019-09758-x

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