Invasive mosquito vectors in Europe: from bioecology to surveillance and management.
Acta Tropica, 2023 Invasive mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) play a key role in the spread of a number of mosquito-borne diseases worldwide. Anthropogenic changes play a significant role in affecting their distribution. Invasive mosquitoes usually take advantage from biotic
Giulia Giunti, N. Becker, G. Benelli
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European Surveillance for West Nile Virus in Mosquito Populations [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2013 A wide range of arthropod-borne viruses threaten both human and animal health either through their presence in Europe or through risk of introduction. Prominent among these is West Nile virus (WNV), primarily an avian virus, which has caused multiple outbreaks associated with human and equine mortality.
Olivier Engler +27 more
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Community-owned resource persons for malaria vector control: enabling factors and challenges in an operational programme in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2011 UNLABELLED\ud \ud ABSTRACT:\ud \ud BACKGROUND\ud \ud Community participation in vector control and health services in general is of great interest to public health practitioners in developing countries, but remains complex and poorly understood.
Chaki, Prosper P +4 more
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Spread and establishment of Aedes albopictus in southern Switzerland between 2003 and 2014 : an analysis of oviposition data and weather conditions [PDF]
, 2016 The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is a highly invasive mosquito species of public health importance. In the wake of its arrival in neighbouring Italy the authorities of the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland initiated a surveillance ...
Engeler, Lukas +3 more
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bioRxiv, 2023 Species distribution modeling (SDM) has become an increasingly common approach to explore questions about ecology, geography, outbreak risk, and global change as they relate to infectious disease vectors.
C. Lippi +7 more
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Coordination among neighbors improves the efficacy of Zika control despite economic costs.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 Emerging mosquito-borne viruses like Zika, dengue, and chikungunya pose a major threat to public health, especially in low-income regions of Central and South America, southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Outbreaks of these diseases are likely to have long-
Natalie J Lemanski +3 more
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Reverse chemical ecology approach for the identification of an oviposition attractant for Culex quinquefasciatus. [PDF]
, 2018 Pheromones and other semiochemicals play a crucial role in today's integrated pest and vector management strategies. These semiochemicals are typically discovered by bioassay-guided approaches.
Bhagavathy, Ganga +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Mosquito-borne diseases’ impact on human health is among the most prominent of all communicable diseases. With limited pool of tools to contrast these diseases, public health focus remains preventing mosquito-human contacts.
Federico Ferraccioli +5 more
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The Role of Village Surveillance Officer to Prevent Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever [PDF]
, 2016 Dengue is a major public health problem in Indonesia. The program of elimination of mosquito breeding places is still low. This study was aimed to analyze the effectiveness of village surveillance officer for decrease container index.
Kuntoro, K. (Kuntoro) +3 more
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Spatio-temporal malaria transmission patterns in Navrongo demographic surveillance site, northern Ghana [PDF]
, 2013 The relationship between entomological measures of malaria transmission intensity and mortality remains uncertain. This is partly because transmission is heterogeneous even within small geographical areas.
Adjuik, Martin +8 more
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