Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes

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• dc.contributor.author Palmer, John R. B.
• dc.contributor.author Oltra, Aitana
• dc.contributor.author Collantes, Francisco
• dc.contributor.author Delgado, Juan Antonio
• dc.contributor.author Lucientes, Javier
• dc.contributor.author Delacour, Sarah
• dc.contributor.author Bengoa, Mikel
• dc.contributor.author Eritja, Roger
• dc.contributor.author Bartumeu, Frederic
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-15T08:35:46Z
• dc.date.available 2022-11-15T08:35:46Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract Recent outbreaks of Zika, chikungunya and dengue highlight the importance of better understanding the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes across multiple spatio-temporal scales. Traditional surveillance tools are limited by jurisdictional boundaries and cost constraints. Here we show how a scalable citizen science system can solve this problem by combining citizen scientists’ observations with expert validation and correcting for sampling effort. Our system provides accurate early warning information about the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) invasion in Spain, well beyond that available from traditional methods, and vital for public health services. It also provides estimates of tiger mosquito risk comparable to those from traditional methods but more directly related to the human–mosquito encounters that are relevant for epidemiological modelling and scalable enough to cover the entire country. These results illustrate how powerful public participation in science can be and suggest citizen science is positioned to revolutionize mosquito-borne disease surveillance worldwide.
• dc.description.sponsorship We gratefully acknowledge the work of the entire Mosquito Alert team and all the anonymous citizen scientists who have volunteered their time and energy to participate in this project. We also gratefully acknowledge A. Torrell (Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat, Generalitat de Catalunya) and the support of the Spanish Ministry of Public Health, CCAES (Centro de Coordinación de Alertas y Emergencias Sanitarias) and the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya. J.R.B.P. is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 657956. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO, Plan Estatal I+D+I CGL2013-43139-R) and ‘la Caixa’ Banking Foundation. Mosquito Alert is currently promoted by ‘la Caixa’ Banking Foundation. Other contributors during 2014-15 are the Fundación Española de Ciencia y Tecnología (FCT-13-7019), the program RecerCaixa-2013, and the company Lokimica S.A.
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• dc.identifier.citation Palmer JRB, Oltra A, Collantes F, Delgado JA, Lucientes J, Delacour S, et al. Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes. Nat Commun. 2017;8:916. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00914-9
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00914-9
• dc.identifier.issn 2041-1723
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54858
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Nature Research
• dc.relation.ispartof Nat Commun. 2017;8:916
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/657956
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CGL2013-43139-R
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• dc.subject.other Mosquits
• dc.subject.other Zoonosi
• dc.subject.other Malalties transmissibles
• dc.title Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes
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