Publishing data to support the fight against human vector-borne diseases

Edmunds, Scott; Fouque, Florence; Copas, Kyle; Hirsch, Tim; Shimabukuro, Paloma Helena Fernandes; Andrade-Filho, José Dilermando; Marceló-Díaz, Catalina; Morales, Carlos Andrés; Lesmes, María Camila; Fuya, Patricia; Méndez, Sergio Andrés; Cadena, Horacio; Ávila-Díaz, Alvaro; Santamaría, Erika; Južnič-Zonta, Živko; Eritja, Roger; Palmer, John R.B.; Bartumeus, Frederic; Conceição, Maurício dos Santos; Chahad‐Ehlers, Samira; Silva-Inácio, Cássio Lázaro; Lozovei, Ana Leuch; Andrade, Andrey José de; Paull, Sara H.; Miranda, Miguel Ángel; Barceló, Carlos; Schaffner, Francis; Torre, Alessandra della; Brosens, Dimitri; Dekoninck, Wouter; Hendrickx, Guy; Bortel, Wim Van; Deblauwe, Isra; Smitz, Nathalie; Versteirt, Veerle; Godoy, Rodrigo Espíndola; Brilhante, Andréia Fernandes; Ceccarelli, Soledad; Balsalobre, Agustín; Vicente, María Eugenia; Curtis‐Robles, Rachel; Hamer, Sarah A.; Landa, José Manuel Ayala; Rabinovich, Jorge E.; Martí, Gerardo A.; Schigel, Dmitry

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Insecticide paints: a new community strategy for controlling dengue and zika mosquito vectors in Cabo Verde

Gómez,

Rocha,

Torró

et al. 2024

Front. Trop. Dis

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BackgroundCabo Verde, an island country in West Africa, has been affected since human colonization by epidemics of vector-borne diseases with major epidemics of dengue and zika in recent years. Although there is a national program for integrated vector control, innovative strategies that reinforce routine activities and strengthen vector control are necessary to prevent the emergence or reemergence of arboviruses and new epidemics of dengue and zika. Insecticide paints are evidenced as new technologies for the formulation of insecticides in a more residual and safe way. The TINTAEDES project aimed to assess the efficacy, acceptability, and operational deployment of an insecticide paint for Aedes control.Methodology/Principal findingsLaboratory and small-scale field trials were conducted, assessing mortality through World Health Organization cone bioassays. A community-based intervention study in the neighborhoods of Várzea and Tira Chapéu in the city of Praia, Cabo Verde, was developed. The intervention is a paint self-application model by homeowners and neighborhood volunteers. The intervention was evaluated based on entomological indicators and the responses given by the residents of the painted houses to a questionnaire on the knowledge, satisfaction, and safety of insecticidal paints. A transfluthrin-based insecticide paint was effective against wild Ae. aegypti for one year in the laboratory and semi-field conditions. Residents largely perceived a reduction in mosquito presence in the treated houses (98%).ConclusionInsecticide paints are presented as an effective innovation strategy for mosquito control, which could be implemented as a reinforcement of the measures carried out by the vector control program in the city of Praia and throughout the country.

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Insecticide paints: a new community strategy for controlling dengue and zika mosquito vectors in Cabo Verde

Gómez,

Rocha,

Torró

et al. 2024

Front. Trop. Dis

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Bridging Biodiversity and Health: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility’s initiative on open data on vectors of human diseases

Shimabukuro,

Groom,

Fouque

et al. 2024

Gigabyte

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There is an increased awareness of the importance of data publication, data sharing, and open science to support research, monitoring and control of vector-borne disease (VBD). Here we describe the efforts of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as well as the World Health Special Programme on Research and Training in Diseases of Poverty (TDR) to promote publication of data related to vectors of diseases. In 2020, a GBIF task group of experts was formed to provide advice and support efforts aimed at enhancing the coverage and accessibility of data on vectors of human diseases within GBIF. Various strategies, such as organizing training courses and publishing data papers, were used to increase this content. This editorial introduces the outcome of a second call for data papers partnered by the TDR, GBIF and GigaScience Press in the journal GigaByte. Biodiversity and infectious diseases are linked in complex ways. These links can involve changes from the microorganism level to that of the habitat, and there are many ways in which these factors interact to affect human health. One way to tackle disease control and possibly elimination, is to provide stakeholders with access to a wide range of data shared under the FAIR principles, so it is possible to support early detection, analyses and evaluation, and to promote policy improvements and/or development.

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Converting the Field Records of Early-20th Century Public Health Pioneer to Data

Edmunds

2023

Preprint

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Publishing data to support the fight against human vector-borne diseases

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Insecticide paints: a new community strategy for controlling dengue and zika mosquito vectors in Cabo Verde

Insecticide paints: a new community strategy for controlling dengue and zika mosquito vectors in Cabo Verde

Bridging Biodiversity and Health: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility’s initiative on open data on vectors of human diseases

Converting the Field Records of Early-20th Century Public Health Pioneer to Data

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