Surveillance and Diagnosis of West Nile Virus in the Face of Flavivirus Cross-Reactivity

Abstract

West Nile Virus (WNV) is an arthropod-borne flavivirus whose zoonotic cycle includes both mosquitoes and birds as amplifiers and humans and horses as dead-end hosts. In recent years WNV has been spreading globally and is currently endemic in Africa, The Middle East, India, Australia, central and southern Europe, and the Americas. Integrated surveillance schemes and environmental data aim to detect viral circulation and reduce the risk of infection for the human population emphasizing the critical role for One Health principles in public health. Approximately 20% of WNV infected patients develop West Nile Fever while in less than 1%, infection results in West Nile Neurological Disease. Currently, the diagnosis of WNV infection is primarily based on serology, since molecular identification of WNV RNA is unreliable due to the short viremia. The recent emergence of Zika virus epidemic in America and Asia has added another layer of complexity to WNV diagnosis due to significant cross-reactivity between several members of the Flaviviridae family such as Zika, dengue, Usutu, and West Nile viruses. Diagnosis is especially challenging in persons living in regions with flavivirus co-circulation as well as in travelers from WNV endemic countries traveling to Zika or dengue infected areas or vise-versa. Here, we review the recent studies implementing WNV surveillance of mosquitoes and birds within the One Health initiative. Furthermore, we discuss the utility of novel molecular methods, alongside traditional molecular and serological methods, in WNV diagnosis and epidemiological research.

Introduction

West Nile Virus (WNV) is a member of the family Flaviviridae from the genus Flavivirus which also contain other viruses pathogenic to humans such as Zika, dengue, yellow fever, Usutu, and Japanese encephalitis (Hayes et al., 2005; Petersen et al., 2013). WNV is maintained in nature in a bird-mosquito cycle with birds acting as amplifying hosts (Malkinson and Banet, 2002). WNV infects mostly mosquitoes from the Culex genus which can potentially transmit the virus to every vertebrate on which they feed (Orshan et al., 2008; Andreadis, 2012; Engler et al., 2013; Steiner and Kennedy, 2013; Lustig et al., 2015). While many bird species do not develop any disease, several species such as crows and jays may die of WNV infection (Gamino and Hofle, 2013). Mammals, primarily horses and humans are unable to contribute to the transmission cycle and thus are considered dead end hosts (Colpitts et al., 2012).

West Nile Virus infection in humans is mostly asymptomatic, however, in approximately 20% of the cases WNV infection induces a mild disease with influenza like symptoms termed West Nile Fever (WNF), while in less than 1% of cases, mainly in elderly and immunocompromised people, infection results in a severe neuroinvasive disease (WNND) which may lead to death (Hayes et al., 2005). Horses are more prone to WNV than humans and 10% of infected horses may show neurological signs (Castillo-Olivares and Wood, 2004). Currently, no vaccine or other treatments are available for humans, although inactivated and recombinant vaccines are on the market for horses (Seino et al., 2007).

During the last 20 years WNV has spread geographically and is now common in countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and East Asia where it can cause disease outbreaks (Petersen et al., 2013). While the origin of all WNV lineages and genotypes is most probably Africa (May et al., 2011), WNV is primarily distributed to other areas by bird migration paths (Mackenzie et al., 2004). Such is the case for the introduction of WNV into Europe which is hypothesized to be mediated by birds migrating from Africa to Europe in the spring (Calistri et al., 2010). According to two models, long distance WNV dispersal is dependent on birds while short distance diffusion of the virus is mediated by mosquitoes (Liu et al., 2006; Maidana and Yang, 2009). Other factors contributing to WNV spread and its ability to cause human infection include short- and long-distance migratory species (Rappole and Hubalek, 2003), wind patterns (Mackenzie et al., 2004) and the existence of compatible mosquito vector. Studies in Israel, a major crossroad for bird migration between Africa and Eurasia, have indicated that four different genotypes within two lineages of WNV have been circulating in recent years (Lustig et al., 2015). Due to its complex transmission cycle and lack of treatment, it is now apparent that a multi-disciplinary approach with cross sectorial collaboration between organizations from public, animal and environmental health is needed to obtain knowledge on WNV circulation and prevention of WNV transmission. Unfortunately, WNV is not alone in its global expansion: other flaviviruses such as dengue and Zika have spread or emerged in many countries making the diagnosis of flaviviral diseases substantially more challenging. In this review we will focus on the recent studies implementing WNV surveillance of mosquitoes and birds within the One Health initiative which aim to reduce WNV transmission and discuss the molecular and serological methods available for sensitive and specific WNV diagnosis.

Wnv Surveillance Within the One Health Initiative

The One Health concept recognizes that the health of humans, animals, and environment are all connected and that only a collaborative inter-disciplinary approach can effectively achieve optimal health outcomes (Lerner and Berg, 2015). WNV is transmitted to humans and animals primarily via the amplification of the mosquitoes – birds’ enzootic cycle which is independently controlled by climatic and environmental factors such as temperatures, seasons and water level fluctuations (Paz and Semenza, 2013). Therefore, active surveillance of WNV in mosquitoes and birds population in combination with analysis of climatic and environmental data offers an opportunity to detect virus prior to the emergence of disease in equine species or human populations and predict timing and locations of future WNV disease outbreaks. Most important, early detection of WNV may facilitate targeted use of insecticides in the infected area to reduce WNV burden in human and animal populations. The necessity of such surveillance schemes is dependent on WNV prevalence and might be implemented in the whole country or restricted to specific region of high WNV endemicity. In the next sections we discuss eight WNV endemic countries which represent several levels of implementation of the One Health concept (Table 1).

Italy

Following the first outbreak of WNV in horses in Italy in 1998 (Cantile et al., 2000; Autorino et al., 2002) the Italian government has started in 2001 a national surveillance plan that targeted birds, domestic poultry, horses, mosquitoes, and humans (Angelini et al., 2010). In recent years this plan, which is carried out in three regions in the Po valley area in northern Italy where WNV is endemic, has developed and is now based on the trans disciplinary and trans-sectorial collaboration between regional institutions involved in public, human, animal, and environmental health (Angelini et al., 2010; Mulatti et al., 2013; Napoli et al., 2013; Rosa et al., 2014; Calzolari et al., 2015). The integrated surveillance system also allows to modulate blood donations screening in the Emilia-Romagna region as only WNV detection by the surveillance system triggers public health interventions on blood donors (Paternoster et al., 2017a). To improve the surveillance sensitivity, data sharing mechanisms have been established among the three regions which are aimed at early detection of the viral circulation and reduction of the risk of infection (Paternoster et al., 2017b). Since WNV can be transferable through blood donations, seroprevalence of WNV antibodies among blood donors is also examined (Pezzotti et al., 2011; Pierro et al., 2011, 2013; Gaibani et al., 2013).

Greece

West Nile Virus has emerged in Greece in 2010 and caused outbreaks for three consecutive years in both humans and horses (Papa et al., 2010; Danis et al., 2011a,b; Papa, 2012; Bouzalas et al., 2016). Following the 2010 outbreak a strategic framework for an integrated entomological surveillance program was established with the aims to address the impact of current vector control strategies and climate on mosquito population, to analyze the mosquito species composition in WNV affected areas as well as other areas of Greece and to quantify viral circulation, geographic spread and transmission cycle of WNV in mosquitoes (Gomes et al., 2013; Valiakos et al., 2014; Patsoula et al., 2016). In recent years seroprevalence studies in both humans (Ladbury et al., 2013; Vrioni et al., 2014), chickens (Chaintoutis et al., 2016), and equine (Bouzalas et al., 2016) were initiated to examine the kinetics of WNV prevalence in animals and humans over time.

Spain

The number of WNV cases detected in horses and humans in Spain is significantly smaller than Italy and Greece and so far only two outbreaks with two and three human patients have been recorded in Andalusia, in 2010 and 2016, respectively (Garcia-Bocanegra et al., 2011, 2012; Lopez-Ruiz et al., 2018). Nevertheless, monitoring of mosquitoes infected with WNV and screening of WNV seropositivity in humans, horses, and birds in Spain has enabled the detection of WNV circulation years before the occurrence of cases in humans or horses (Figuerola et al., 2007; Lopez et al., 2008; Jimenez-Clavero et al., 2010; Alba et al., 2014). Currently, surveillance of WNV in Spain is primarily investigated as research projects run by universities and other private institutions and not by the Spanish or municipal government and as such is focused on specific years and/or regions. Recently, risk mapping of WNV circulation in 2015 in Spain was conducted with the hope to improve WNV risk-based surveillance and develop a model for WNV distribution and infection in Spain (Sanchez-Gomez et al., 2017).

Israel

West Nile Virus has been recognized as endemic in Israel since its establishment in 1948. However, despite sporadic cases and a few small outbreaks (Bernkopf et al., 1953; Flatau et al., 1981; Katz et al., 1989), WNV was not considered a public health concern until 2000, when a large scale human outbreak occurred (Bin et al., 2001; Weinberger et al., 2001). Since then outbreaks of varying magnitudes have been recorded every few years (Anis et al., 2014). Following the 2000 outbreak, a national mosquito surveillance system was established which is responsible for entomological analysis of mosquitoes and characterization of WNV circulation in Israel (Orshan et al., 2008; Lustig et al., 2015). Furthermore, WNV infections in humans and seropositivity of the population are monitored routinely and are integrated with mosquito surveillance data by the public health division to assess the burden of WNV circulation in Israel and implement appropriate measures (Lustig et al., 2015, 2017a,b; Bassal et al., 2017). Recently, the public health and veterinary services, Israel Nature and Park Authorities and the ministry of environmental protection have initiated a program to integrate WNV data obtained from humans, mosquitos, horses, and birds with the aim to develop a true one health initiative for WNV in Israel. Finally, testing of blood donors was initiated in 2017 to assess the extent of alternative routes of WNV transmission to humans in Israel.

Turkey

Much like its neighbor, Greece, WNV outbreaks emerged in 2010 and 2011 with 47 and 5 human cases, respectively (Kalaycioglu et al., 2012). Since then several seroprevalence and mosquito surveillance reports confirmed the presence of WNV in Turkey (Ergunay et al., 2013, 2014, 2015). A recent study was initiated to provide a risk-assessment of the circulation of mosquito borne flaviviruses in Turkey (Ergunay et al., 2017), however, an integrated national surveillance plan is not yet in place.

Austria

West Nile Virus was first identified in Austria in birds in 2008 (Bakonyi et al., 2013) and human infection has been recorded since 2009 (Stiasny et al., 2013). Since then several WNV clinical cases are diagnosed each year in humans (Gossner et al., 2017; Kolodziejek et al., 2018). In 2013, a national WNV task force was established which is responsible to integrate all data collected from mosquito surveillance systems, veterinary surveillance of birds and horses and the Austrian Blood Donation System and public health authorities (Gossner et al., 2017; Kolodziejek et al., 2018). Altogether, detailed reports of WNV activity in Austria are routinely published and through the combined effort of multiple independently operating agencies WNV activity in Austria is closely monitored (Kolodziejek et al., 2018).

United States

West Nile Virus had not been detected in North America before 1999, when a large WNV outbreak occurred in New York City (Nash et al., 2001). Phylogenetic studies identified genetic similarity to strains previously identified in Israel, suggesting a Middle Eastern importation (Lanciotti et al., 1999). Since then, the 1999 outbreak strain was rapidly displaced by a novel North American genotype (NA/WN02) (Davis et al., 2005) which can now be found in all 48 contiguous states and was responsible for large nationwide epidemics in 2003 and 2012 (Arnold, 2012; Roehrig, 2013). WNV can be transmitted under lab setting (Turell et al., 2005; Vanlandingham et al., 2007) and in nature (Andreadis et al., 2001; Barker et al., 2009) by several mosquito species circulating in the United States. In addition to state specific mosquito surveillance programs (White et al., 2001; Barker et al., 2003; Tesh et al., 2004; Poh et al., 2018), the Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) has established in 2000 a comprehensive and robust national surveillance data capture platform termed ArboNET in order to monitor WNV patterns in humans, mosquitoes, birds, and other animals and track the progression of WNV activity across the United States (Hadler et al., 2015). The use of ArboNET, state specific arboviral surveillance systems and environmental monitoring has allowed prediction of a WNV outbreak in the Great Plains, an area with high levels of WNV circulation (Chuang and Wimberly, 2012; Davis et al., 2017). However, despite association of WNV outbreaks in the United States with parameters such as urban and ecological habitats (Bowden et al., 2011), rural irrigated landscapes (DeGroote and Sugumaran, 2012), increased temperature (Hartley et al., 2012), several socioeconomic factors such as housing age and community drainage patterns (Ruiz et al., 2007), per capita income (DeGroote and Sugumaran, 2012), and neglected swimming pool density (Reisen et al., 2008; Harrigan et al., 2010), no models have been developed that predict how these factors combine to produce outbreaks. Since the Zika virus outbreak in 2015, ArboNET is routinely used for Zika disease reporting, thus allowing the quick integration and dissemination of data across the United States (Simeone et al., 2016).

Canada

Following WNV introduction to the United States, the virus has spread to Canada and was responsible for major outbreaks in 2002 and 2012 in Ontario and Quebec and in 2003 and 2007 in the Prairie Provinces (Zheng et al., 2014; Kulkarni et al., 2015). In order to cope with the disease, integrated mosquito surveillance is routinely performed at the national level and WNV disease is nationally notifiable and reportable (Zheng et al., 2014). In addition, surveillance data on humans, horses, and birds is shared between all municipalities and blood donations are routinely checked for WNV RNA presence. Data assembly into weekly national reports and studies evaluating the dynamics of WNV transmission using human case prevalence, mosquito surveillance, and climate data (Chen et al., 2013; Giordano et al., 2017; Mallya et al., 2018) contribute to raising the awareness of WNV in Canada.

Assessment of One Health Initiatives

At this point it is hard to assess the effects that One Health initiatives have on controlling WNV disease in each country. In Italy, an unbiased quantitative evaluation protocol has been developed to examine the implementation of the One Health approach in order to “fine tune” the system (Paternoster et al., 2017b). However, since One Health is a relatively young approach more time in needed to retrospectively examine its effect on reduction of WNV circulation and infection.

Wnv Rna Diagnosis

With the development of molecular biology methods in the 1980s, laboratory diagnosis of viral infections have developed from traditional viral isolation in cell culture which can take days to weeks (Leland and Ginocchio, 2007) to molecular detection of viral genomes which can be achieved in hours. Acute WNV infection in humans can be diagnosed by WNV RNA detection in samples obtained from symptomatic patients. In addition, since WNV can be transferable through blood (Pealer et al., 2003; Montgomery et al., 2006), screening of blood and organ donations obtained from persons living in WNV endemic areas is important to identify samples that are infected with WNV (Pisani et al., 2016).

Diagnosis of WNV Acute Infection

In recent years, the detection of viral genome in bodily fluids by quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR) has become the routine diagnosis method for many viral infections due to its industry standard format, high levels of repeatability and reproducibility, high sensitivity and specificity, fast turnaround time and ease of use (Boonham et al., 2014). Unfortunately, for most diseases caused by flaviviruses, including WNF, molecular diagnosis by qRT-PCR of serum, plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples is of limited value for routine diagnosis due to low level and short lived viremia generated by these viruses (Busch et al., 2006, 2008; Barzon et al., 2013a; Lustig et al., 2016; Figure 1). Recently, several studies have demonstrated that WNV is retained in the kidneys and can therefore be detected in urine samples for a longer period of time than plasma, CSF or serum (Barzon et al., 2013a,b, 2014, 2015). In addition, since WNV was shown to adhere to red blood cells (Rios et al., 2007) it can persist for months in whole blood of blood donors (Lanteri et al., 2014). We have recently found that during acute WNV infection WNV RNA can be detected in whole blood, serum, CSF, plasma, and urine samples in 86.8, 26, 16.6, 20 and 58.3% of WNV infected patients, respectively, demonstrating the superiority and effectiveness of WNV RNA detection in whole blood for diagnosis of acute Infection (Lustig et al., 2016; Figure 1). Several commercial and in house molecular diagnostic tests with varying sensitivities are available which are different primarily in their amplification target of the viral genome.

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Blood and Organ Screening

Transmission of WNV during blood and organ donations has been recorded in the United States (Gyure, 2009) and Europe (Morelli et al., 2010; Costa et al., 2011; Rabel et al., 2011; Inojosa et al., 2012). As mentioned previously, 80% of WNV infections in humans are asymptomatic and most persons are not aware they have been infected with WNV, especially in areas endemic for WNV (Hayes et al., 2005). Therefore, screening of blood donations for WNV is performed annually in many countries with WNV endemic circulation, such as the United States, Canada, several countries in the European Union and Israel to assess and reduce the risk of organ transplant and blood recipients for infection with WNV. A few commercial nucleic acid amplification tests (NATs) are on the market which are approved for blood testing from healthy persons (Pai et al., 2008; Ziermann and Sanchez-Guerrero, 2008; Zhang et al., 2009), are fully automated, and allow testing on hundreds of plasma samples a day. Due to the low levels of WNV RNA that may be present in healthy, asymptomatic blood donors, these commercial tests need to detect WNV with very high sensitivity and specificity.

Serological Wnv Diagnosis

Due to the challenges with WNV viral detection, specific antibody testing is currently the most widely used approach for WNV diagnosis. Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies can usually be detected by day 4 and day 8 after onset of symptoms, respectively (Busch et al., 2008) and therefore detection of IgM antibodies alone or IgG seroconversion can point to a WNV acute infection (Figure 1). Numerous commercial kits for WNV antibody detection are available which are primarily based on detection of specific antibodies against the Envelope (E) protein of WNV using either enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) or immunofluorescence tests (IFAs). The advantages of these qualitative assays are that they are very easy to use in a laboratory setting, the results are mostly reproducible and part of their protocol can be automated. However, since WNV IgM can persist in serum for months and even years after infection (Prince et al., 2005; Busch et al., 2008; Murray et al., 2010, 2013; Papa et al., 2011, 2015) and significant cross reactivity exists between all flaviviruses it is often difficult to diagnose acute WNV infection based on these commercial kits alone. To validate the initial results neutralization assays can be used. Neutralization determines the ability of the antibodies present in the patient’s sample to neutralize the virus and therefore it can evaluate the antibody-virus neutralization efficiency (Nelson et al., 2008) and is considered the gold standard for diagnosis of WNV infection (Calisher et al., 1989; Kuno, 2003). There are several types of neutralization protocols with similar performance which differ in their sensitivity [plaque reduction neutralization (PRNT) 50 or PRNT90], the method of cytopathic effect (CPE) detection (direct, staining, detection with IFA) and the plates used (for PRNT or micro-neutralization).

The Zika epidemic, which emerged in 2015 in Brazil (Fauci and Morens, 2016; Song et al., 2017), poses another layer of complication for diagnosis of flaviviruses, including WNV. Due to the high cross-reactivity of Zika virus with other flavivirus antibodies, E protein based ELISAs and neutralization assays encounter difficulties to distinguish between specific flavivirus infections and as a result diagnosis of WNV or dengue virus (Lanciotti et al., 2008; Balmaseda et al., 2017) in persons with Zika virus background is more challenging. Our experience (unpublished results) with Zika positive patients show high cross reactivity with WNV E protein based ELISAs which can cause false positive results for encephalitic patients and as a consequence the wrong treatment. The development of ELISA tests for Zika infection which use the Non-structural 1 (NS1) protein as antigen for Zika antibody testing proved to be advantageous and more specific than E protein based ELISAs (Steinhagen et al., 2016), however, sensitivity and detection times issues, especially in countries with previous dengue (Steinhagen et al., 2016) and possibly WNV (Lustig et al., 2017c) background limit the dependence on this test. Development of similar NS1 antibody based ELISA assays for WNV and dengue virus could be useful in reducing the cross-reactivity resulting in more specific Flavivirus diagnostic tests.

Novel Methods for Wnv Detection

Serological methods aided by detection of viral nucleic acid by qRT-PCR will, most probably, continue to be the primary and preferred diagnostic methods for WNV. Nevertheless, the establishment of next generation sequencing (NGS) methods in recent years, which are also called deep or high-throughput sequencing, led to the increased use of NGS to complement diagnosis and monitoring of infectious diseases caused by both bacteria (Deurenberg et al., 2017) and viruses (Hoper et al., 2016; Casadella and Paredes, 2017; Ramamurthy et al., 2017). The most important diagnostic application for NGS is probably the unbiased identification of pathogens in clinical samples. With regards to WNV, one example is the identification of WNV by NGS from a CSF sample obtained from a 14 years old meningoencephalitis patient (Wilson et al., 2017). In a recent study, plasma samples from 12 cases of unexplained febrile illness in Tanzania were investigated by NGS and identified WNV in two samples (Williams et al., 2018). These examples demonstrate the additive value that NGS may provide even in diagnosis of viruses with short viremia such as WNV. NGS can also be used in epidemiological investigations and research (Zana et al., 2016).

Recently, a new and novel method for the detection of flavivirus RNAs including Zika, dengue and WNV from body fluids has emerged. Using CRISPR-cas13 technology, a fluorescent protein was used to track and detect flavivirus RNAs present in patients samples generating a field-deployable viral diagnostic platform with high performance and minimal equipment or sample processing requirements (Myhrvold et al., 2018). This platform is comparable in its sensitivity to qRT-PCR assays, is fast (under 2 h) and may be used to serve as a diagnostic platform in areas with limited resources or even compete with current molecular diagnostic devices which are in the market.

Concluding Remarks

The emergence and geographical spread of WNV in recent years has forced endemic countries to initiate integrated surveillance programs to identify, predict, and reduce WNV circulation. Future programs should be implemented to combine all data and assess the effectiveness of these surveillance programs to reduce the burden of WNV infections. In addition, due to the influx of other flaviviruses, such as Zika virus, and their global expansion, more specific, yet sensitive assays for WNV diagnosis should be established to be able to distinguish between the different diseases and ultimately pave the way for the development of a WNV vaccine.

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