GigaByte (May 2022)

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

  • Miguel Ángel Miranda ,
  • Carlos Barceló ,
  • Daniele Arnoldi ,
  • Xenia Augsten ,
  • Karin Bakran-Lebl ,
  • George Balatsos ,
  • Mikel Bengoa ,
  • Philippe Bindler ,
  • Kristina Boršová ,
  • Maria Bourquia ,
  • Daniel Bravo-Barriga ,
  • Viktória Čabanová ,
  • Beniamino Caputo ,
  • Maria Christou ,
  • Sarah Delacour ,
  • Roger Eritja ,
  • Ouafaa Fassi-Fihri ,
  • Martina Ferraguti ,
  • Eleonora Flacio ,
  • Eva Frontera ,
  • Hans-Peter Fuehrer ,
  • Ana L. García-Pérez ,
  • Pantelis Georgiades ,
  • Sandra Gewehr ,
  • Fátima Goiri ,
  • Mikel Alexander González ,
  • Martin Gschwind ,
  • Rafael Gutiérrez-López ,
  • Cintia Horváth ,
  • Adolfo Ibáñez-Justicia ,
  • Viola Jani ,
  • Përparim Kadriaj ,
  • Katja Kalan ,
  • Mihaela Kavran ,
  • Ana Klobucar ,
  • Kornélia Kurucz ,
  • Javier Lucientes ,
  • Renke Lühken ,
  • Sergio Magallanes ,
  • Giovanni Marini ,
  • Angeliki F. Martinou ,
  • Alice Michelutti ,
  • Andrei Daniel Mihalca ,
  • Tomás Montalvo ,
  • Fabrizio Montarsi ,
  • Spiros Mourelatos ,
  • Nesade Muja-Bajraktari ,
  • Pie Müller ,
  • Gregoris Notarides ,
  • Hugo Costa Osório ,
  • José A. Oteo ,
  • Kerem Oter ,
  • Igor Pajović ,
  • John R. B. Palmer ,
  • Suncica Petrinic ,
  • Cristian Răileanu ,
  • Christian Ries ,
  • Elton Rogozi ,
  • Ignacio Ruiz-Arrondo ,
  • Isis Sanpera-Calbet ,
  • Nebojša Sekulić ,
  • Kivanc Sevim ,
  • Kurtesh Sherifi ,
  • Cornelia Silaghi ,
  • Manuel Silva ,
  • Nikolina Sokolovska ,
  • Zoltán Soltész ,
  • Tatiana Sulesco ,
  • Jana Šušnjar ,
  • Steffanie Teekema ,
  • Andrea Valsecchi ,
  • Marlen Ines Vasquez ,
  • Enkelejda Velo ,
  • Antonios Michaelakis ,
  • William Wint ,
  • Dušan Petrić ,
  • Francis Schaffner ,
  • Alessandra della Torre ,
  • Carina Suchentrunk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.57

Abstract

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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.