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VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map
Public and animal health authorities face many challenges in surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases. Those challenges are principally due to the multitude of interactions between vertebrate hosts, pathogens, and vectors in continuously changing environments. VectorNet, a joint project of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763 |
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author | Braks, Marieta Schaffner, Francis Medlock, Jolyon M. Berriatua, Eduardo Balenghien, Thomas Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Hendrickx, Guy Marsboom, Cedric Van Bortel, Wim Smallegange, Renate C. Sprong, Hein Gossner, Céline M. Czwienczek, Ewelina Dhollander, Sofie Briët, Olivier Wint, William |
author_facet | Braks, Marieta Schaffner, Francis Medlock, Jolyon M. Berriatua, Eduardo Balenghien, Thomas Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Hendrickx, Guy Marsboom, Cedric Van Bortel, Wim Smallegange, Renate C. Sprong, Hein Gossner, Céline M. Czwienczek, Ewelina Dhollander, Sofie Briët, Olivier Wint, William |
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description | Public and animal health authorities face many challenges in surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases. Those challenges are principally due to the multitude of interactions between vertebrate hosts, pathogens, and vectors in continuously changing environments. VectorNet, a joint project of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) facilitates risk assessments of VBD threats through the collection, mapping and sharing of distribution data for ticks, mosquitoes, sand flies, and biting midges that are vectors of pathogens of importance to animal and/or human health in Europe. We describe the development and maintenance of this One Health network that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020 and the value of its most tangible outputs, the vector distribution maps, that are freely available online and its raw data on request. VectorNet encourages usage of these maps by health professionals and participation, sharing and usage of the raw data by the network and other experts in the science community. For the latter, a more complete technical description of the mapping procedure will be submitted elsewhere. |
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spelling | pubmed-90138132022-04-19 VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map Braks, Marieta Schaffner, Francis Medlock, Jolyon M. Berriatua, Eduardo Balenghien, Thomas Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Hendrickx, Guy Marsboom, Cedric Van Bortel, Wim Smallegange, Renate C. Sprong, Hein Gossner, Céline M. Czwienczek, Ewelina Dhollander, Sofie Briët, Olivier Wint, William Front Public Health Public Health Public and animal health authorities face many challenges in surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases. Those challenges are principally due to the multitude of interactions between vertebrate hosts, pathogens, and vectors in continuously changing environments. VectorNet, a joint project of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) facilitates risk assessments of VBD threats through the collection, mapping and sharing of distribution data for ticks, mosquitoes, sand flies, and biting midges that are vectors of pathogens of importance to animal and/or human health in Europe. We describe the development and maintenance of this One Health network that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020 and the value of its most tangible outputs, the vector distribution maps, that are freely available online and its raw data on request. VectorNet encourages usage of these maps by health professionals and participation, sharing and usage of the raw data by the network and other experts in the science community. For the latter, a more complete technical description of the mapping procedure will be submitted elsewhere. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9013813/ /pubmed/35444989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763 Text en Copyright © 2022 Braks, Schaffner, Medlock, Berriatua, Balenghien, Mihalca, Hendrickx, Marsboom, Van Bortel, Smallegange, Sprong, Gossner, Czwienczek, Dhollander, Briët and Wint. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Braks, Marieta Schaffner, Francis Medlock, Jolyon M. Berriatua, Eduardo Balenghien, Thomas Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Hendrickx, Guy Marsboom, Cedric Van Bortel, Wim Smallegange, Renate C. Sprong, Hein Gossner, Céline M. Czwienczek, Ewelina Dhollander, Sofie Briët, Olivier Wint, William VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map |
title | VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map |
title_full | VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map |
title_fullStr | VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map |
title_full_unstemmed | VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map |
title_short | VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map |
title_sort | vectornet: putting vectors on the map |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.809763 |
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