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. 2022 May 31:2022:gigabyte57.
doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.57. eCollection 2022.

AIMSurv: First pan-European harmonized surveillance of Aedes invasive mosquito species of relevance for human vector-borne diseases

Miguel Ángel Miranda  1 Carlos Barceló  1 Daniele Arnoldi  2 Xenia Augsten  3 Karin Bakran-Lebl  4 George Balatsos  5 Mikel Bengoa  6 Philippe Bindler  7 Kristina Boršová  8 Maria Bourquia  9 Daniel Bravo-Barriga  10 Viktória Čabanová  8 Beniamino Caputo  11 Maria Christou  12 Sarah Delacour  13 Roger Eritja  14 Ouafaa Fassi-Fihri  15 Martina Ferraguti  16 Eleonora Flacio  17 Eva Frontera  10 Hans-Peter Fuehrer  18 Ana L García-Pérez  19 Pantelis Georgiades  12 Sandra Gewehr  20 Fátima Goiri  19 Mikel Alexander González  21 Martin Gschwind  22   23 Rafael Gutiérrez-López  1 Cintia Horváth  24 Adolfo Ibáñez-Justicia  25 Viola Jani  26 Përparim Kadriaj  26 Katja Kalan  27 Mihaela Kavran  28 Ana Klobucar  29 Kornélia Kurucz  30 Javier Lucientes  13 Renke Lühken  31 Sergio Magallanes  16 Giovanni Marini  2 Angeliki F Martinou  32 Alice Michelutti  33 Andrei Daniel Mihalca  24 Tomás Montalvo  34 Fabrizio Montarsi  33 Spiros Mourelatos  20 Nesade Muja-Bajraktari  35 Pie Müller  22   23 Gregoris Notarides  36 Hugo Costa Osório  37 José A Oteo  38 Kerem Oter  39 Igor Pajović  40 John R B Palmer  41 Suncica Petrinic  29 Cristian Răileanu  42 Christian Ries  43 Elton Rogozi  26 Ignacio Ruiz-Arrondo  38 Isis Sanpera-Calbet  41 Nebojša Sekulić  44 Kivanc Sevim  45 Kurtesh Sherifi  46 Cornelia Silaghi  42 Manuel Silva  37 Nikolina Sokolovska  47 Zoltán Soltész  48 Tatiana Sulesco  49 Jana Šušnjar  27 Steffanie Teekema  25 Andrea Valsecchi  34 Marlen Ines Vasquez  36 Enkelejda Velo  50 Antonios Michaelakis  5 William Wint  51 Dušan Petrić  28 Francis Schaffner  52 Alessandra Della Torre  11 Consortium AIM-COST/AIM-Surv
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AIMSurv: First pan-European harmonized surveillance of Aedes invasive mosquito species of relevance for human vector-borne diseases

Miguel Ángel Miranda et al. GigaByte. .

Abstract

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. japonicus, Ae. koreicus, Ae. atropalpus and Ae. triseriatus. Here, we report the results of AIMSurv2020, the first pan-European surveillance effort for AIMs. Implemented by 42 volunteer teams from 24 countries. And presented in the form of a dataset named "AIMSurv Aedes Invasive Mosquito species harmonized surveillance in Europe. AIM-COST Action. Project ID: CA17108". AIMSurv2020 harmonizes field surveillance methodologies for sampling different AIMs life stages, frequency and minimum length of sampling period, and data reporting. Data include minimum requirements for sample types and recommended requirements for those teams with more resources. Data are published as a Darwin Core archive in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility- Spain, comprising a core file with 19,130 records (EventID) and an occurrences file with 19,743 records (OccurrenceID). AIM species recorded in AIMSurv2020 were Ae. albopictus, Ae. japonicus and Ae. koreicus, as well as native mosquito species.

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