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Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria
Systematic, continuous mosquito surveillance is considered the most reliable tool to predict the spread and establishment of alien mosquito species such as the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), Japanese bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus), and the transmission risk of mosquito-borne arboviruses t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30877440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06287-w |
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author | Schoener, Ellen Zittra, Carina Weiss, Stefan Walder, Gernot Barogh, Bita Shahi Weiler, Stefanie Fuehrer, Hans-Peter |
author_facet | Schoener, Ellen Zittra, Carina Weiss, Stefan Walder, Gernot Barogh, Bita Shahi Weiler, Stefanie Fuehrer, Hans-Peter |
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description | Systematic, continuous mosquito surveillance is considered the most reliable tool to predict the spread and establishment of alien mosquito species such as the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), Japanese bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus), and the transmission risk of mosquito-borne arboviruses to humans. Only single individuals of Ae. albopictus have been found in Austria so far. However, it is likely that the species will be able to establish populations in the future due to global trade and traffic as well as increasing temperatures in the course of global climate change. In summer 2017, a project surveilling the oviposition of newly introduced Aedes mosquitoes, using ovitraps, was set up by means of citizen scientists and researchers and was performed in six federal provinces of Austria—Tyrol, Carinthia, Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria, and Burgenland. Eggs of Ae. albopictus were identified in Tyrol during the months August and September, while Ae. japonicus was found in Lower Austria, Styria, and Burgenland. In Vienna and Carinthia, all ovitraps were negative for Aedes eggs; however, Ae. japonicus was found for the first time in Vienna in July 2017 during routine sampling of adult mosquitoes. With this project, we demonstrated the benefits of citizen scientists for ovitrap-based mosquito surveillance. The finding of Ae. albopictus eggs in Northern Tyrol is not yet a proof of the establishment of a self-sustaining population, although it indicates the ongoing introduction of this species along main traffic routes from Italy, where this mosquito is well established. The risk of establishment of the tiger mosquito in the Lower Inn Valley is therefore a given and informing the public about preventive measures to hinder and delay this development is highly recommended. |
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spelling | pubmed-64786292019-05-14 Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria Schoener, Ellen Zittra, Carina Weiss, Stefan Walder, Gernot Barogh, Bita Shahi Weiler, Stefanie Fuehrer, Hans-Peter Parasitol Res Arthropods and Medical Entomology - Short Communication Systematic, continuous mosquito surveillance is considered the most reliable tool to predict the spread and establishment of alien mosquito species such as the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), Japanese bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus), and the transmission risk of mosquito-borne arboviruses to humans. Only single individuals of Ae. albopictus have been found in Austria so far. However, it is likely that the species will be able to establish populations in the future due to global trade and traffic as well as increasing temperatures in the course of global climate change. In summer 2017, a project surveilling the oviposition of newly introduced Aedes mosquitoes, using ovitraps, was set up by means of citizen scientists and researchers and was performed in six federal provinces of Austria—Tyrol, Carinthia, Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria, and Burgenland. Eggs of Ae. albopictus were identified in Tyrol during the months August and September, while Ae. japonicus was found in Lower Austria, Styria, and Burgenland. In Vienna and Carinthia, all ovitraps were negative for Aedes eggs; however, Ae. japonicus was found for the first time in Vienna in July 2017 during routine sampling of adult mosquitoes. With this project, we demonstrated the benefits of citizen scientists for ovitrap-based mosquito surveillance. The finding of Ae. albopictus eggs in Northern Tyrol is not yet a proof of the establishment of a self-sustaining population, although it indicates the ongoing introduction of this species along main traffic routes from Italy, where this mosquito is well established. The risk of establishment of the tiger mosquito in the Lower Inn Valley is therefore a given and informing the public about preventive measures to hinder and delay this development is highly recommended. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-03-16 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6478629/ /pubmed/30877440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06287-w Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Arthropods and Medical Entomology - Short Communication Schoener, Ellen Zittra, Carina Weiss, Stefan Walder, Gernot Barogh, Bita Shahi Weiler, Stefanie Fuehrer, Hans-Peter Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria |
title | Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria |
title_full | Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria |
title_fullStr | Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria |
title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria |
title_short | Monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria |
title_sort | monitoring of alien mosquitoes of the genus aedes (diptera: culicidae) in austria |
topic | Arthropods and Medical Entomology - Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30877440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06287-w |
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