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Approaches to passive mosquito surveillance in the EU

The recent emergence in Europe of invasive mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease associated with both invasive and native mosquito species has prompted intensified mosquito vector research in most European countries. Central to the efforts are mosquito monitoring and surveillance activities in order...

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Autores principales: Kampen, Helge, Medlock, Jolyon M, Vaux, Alexander GC, Koenraadt, Constantianus JM, van Vliet, Arnold JH, Bartumeus, Frederic, Oltra, Aitana, Sousa, Carla A, Chouin, Sébastien, Werner, Doreen
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25567671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0604-5
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author Kampen, Helge
Medlock, Jolyon M
Vaux, Alexander GC
Koenraadt, Constantianus JM
van Vliet, Arnold JH
Bartumeus, Frederic
Oltra, Aitana
Sousa, Carla A
Chouin, Sébastien
Werner, Doreen
author_facet Kampen, Helge
Medlock, Jolyon M
Vaux, Alexander GC
Koenraadt, Constantianus JM
van Vliet, Arnold JH
Bartumeus, Frederic
Oltra, Aitana
Sousa, Carla A
Chouin, Sébastien
Werner, Doreen
author_sort Kampen, Helge
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description The recent emergence in Europe of invasive mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease associated with both invasive and native mosquito species has prompted intensified mosquito vector research in most European countries. Central to the efforts are mosquito monitoring and surveillance activities in order to assess the current species occurrence, distribution and, when possible, abundance, in order to permit the early detection of invasive species and the spread of competent vectors. As active mosquito collection, e.g. by trapping adults, dipping preimaginal developmental stages or ovitrapping, is usually cost-, time- and labour-intensive and can cover only small parts of a country, passive data collection approaches are gradually being integrated into monitoring programmes. Thus, scientists in several EU member states have recently initiated programmes for mosquito data collection and analysis that make use of sources other than targeted mosquito collection. While some of them extract mosquito distribution data from zoological databases established in other contexts, community-based approaches built upon the recognition, reporting, collection and submission of mosquito specimens by citizens are becoming more and more popular and increasingly support scientific research. Based on such reports and submissions, new populations, extended or new distribution areas and temporal activity patterns of invasive and native mosquito species were found. In all cases, extensive media work and communication with the participating individuals or groups was fundamental for success. The presented projects demonstrate that passive approaches are powerful tools to survey the mosquito fauna in order to supplement active mosquito surveillance strategies and render them more focused. Their ability to continuously produce biological data permits the early recognition of changes in the mosquito fauna that may have an impact on biting nuisance and the risk of pathogen transmission associated with mosquitoes. International coordination to explore synergies and increase efficiency of passive surveillance programmes across borders needs to be established.
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spelling pubmed-43024432015-01-23 Approaches to passive mosquito surveillance in the EU Kampen, Helge Medlock, Jolyon M Vaux, Alexander GC Koenraadt, Constantianus JM van Vliet, Arnold JH Bartumeus, Frederic Oltra, Aitana Sousa, Carla A Chouin, Sébastien Werner, Doreen Parasit Vectors Research The recent emergence in Europe of invasive mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease associated with both invasive and native mosquito species has prompted intensified mosquito vector research in most European countries. Central to the efforts are mosquito monitoring and surveillance activities in order to assess the current species occurrence, distribution and, when possible, abundance, in order to permit the early detection of invasive species and the spread of competent vectors. As active mosquito collection, e.g. by trapping adults, dipping preimaginal developmental stages or ovitrapping, is usually cost-, time- and labour-intensive and can cover only small parts of a country, passive data collection approaches are gradually being integrated into monitoring programmes. Thus, scientists in several EU member states have recently initiated programmes for mosquito data collection and analysis that make use of sources other than targeted mosquito collection. While some of them extract mosquito distribution data from zoological databases established in other contexts, community-based approaches built upon the recognition, reporting, collection and submission of mosquito specimens by citizens are becoming more and more popular and increasingly support scientific research. Based on such reports and submissions, new populations, extended or new distribution areas and temporal activity patterns of invasive and native mosquito species were found. In all cases, extensive media work and communication with the participating individuals or groups was fundamental for success. The presented projects demonstrate that passive approaches are powerful tools to survey the mosquito fauna in order to supplement active mosquito surveillance strategies and render them more focused. Their ability to continuously produce biological data permits the early recognition of changes in the mosquito fauna that may have an impact on biting nuisance and the risk of pathogen transmission associated with mosquitoes. International coordination to explore synergies and increase efficiency of passive surveillance programmes across borders needs to be established. BioMed Central 2015-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4302443/ /pubmed/25567671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0604-5 Text en © Kampen et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Kampen, Helge
Medlock, Jolyon M
Vaux, Alexander GC
Koenraadt, Constantianus JM
van Vliet, Arnold JH
Bartumeus, Frederic
Oltra, Aitana
Sousa, Carla A
Chouin, Sébastien
Werner, Doreen
Approaches to passive mosquito surveillance in the EU
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title_full Approaches to passive mosquito surveillance in the EU
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25567671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0604-5
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