Unforeseen costs of cutting mosquito surveillance budgets. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 A budget proposal to stop the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding in surveillance and research for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and West Nile virus has the potential to leave the country ill-prepared to handle new ...
Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec +4 more
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Invasive mosquito surveillance in the United Kingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthHere, we provide an update on invasive mosquito surveillance activities coordinated by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) between May 2020 and November 2024.
Colin J Johnston +23 more
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Detection of Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes by Molecular Surveillance, Kenya
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 The Anopheles stephensi mosquito is an invasive malaria vector recently reported in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, and Ghana. The World Health Organization has called on countries in Africa to increase surveillance efforts to detect and ...
Eric O. Ochomo +25 more
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Development of a low-cost imaging system for remote mosquito surveillance. [PDF]
Biomed Opt Express, 2020 Targeted vector control strategies aiming to prevent mosquito borne disease are severely limited by the logistical burden of vector surveillance, the monitoring of an area to understand mosquito species composition, abundance and spatial distribution. We
Goodwin A +7 more
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Anopheles mosquito surveillance in Madagascar reveals multiple blood feeding behavior and Plasmodium infection. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2019 Background The Madagascar National Strategic Plan for Malaria Control 2018 (NSP) outlines malaria control pre-elimination strategies that include detailed goals for mosquito control. Primary surveillance protocols and mosquito control interventions focus
Tedrow RE +7 more
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Satellite Imaging and Long-Term Mosquito Surveillance Implicate the Influence of Rapid Urbanization on Culex Vector Populations. [PDF]
Insects, 2019 The ecology and environmental conditions of a habitat have profound influences on mosquito population abundance. As a result, mosquito species vary in their associations with particular habitat types, yet long-term studies showing how mosquito ...
Field EN, Tokarz RE, Smith RC.
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Using mobile phones as acoustic sensors for high-throughput mosquito surveillance. [PDF]
Elife, 2017 The direct monitoring of mosquito populations in field settings is a crucial input for shaping appropriate and timely control measures for mosquito-borne diseases.
Mukundarajan H +4 more
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New strains of Japanese encephalitis virus circulating in Shanghai, China after a ten-year hiatus in local mosquito surveillance. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2019 BackgroundContinuous vector pathogen surveillance is essential for preventing outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases. Several mosquito species acting as vectors of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), dengue virus, Zika virus, malaria parasites and other ...
Fang Y +7 more
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GigaByte, 2022 Human and animal vector-borne diseases, particularly mosquito-borne diseases, are emerging or re-emerging worldwide. Six Aedes invasive mosquito (AIM) species were introduced to Europe since the 1970s: Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Ae.
Miguel Ángel Miranda +78 more
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Improved spatial ecological sampling using open data and standardization: an example from malaria mosquito surveillance. [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2019 Vector-borne disease control relies on efficient vector surveillance, mostly carried out using traps whose number and locations are often determined by expert opinion rather than a rigorous quantitative sampling design.
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