VectorMap-GR: A local scale operational management tool for entomological monitoring, to support vector control activities in Greece and the Mediterranean Basin

Fotakis, Emmanouil Alexandros; Orfanos, Manolis; Kouleris, Thodoris; Stamatelopoulos, Panagiotis; Tsiropoulos, Z.; Kampouraki, Anastasia; Kioulos, Ilias; Mavridis, Konstantinos; Chaskopoulou, Alexandra; Koliopoulos, George; Vontas, John

doi:10.1016/j.crpvbd.2021.100053

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“…In light of protecting public health and safeguarding the tourist economy in Greece, the development and utilization of information technology tools (e.g. [ 79 ]) providing decision support through driving and facilitating the collection, analysis and interpretation of surveillance data and its transformation into actionable information will help establish direct links between vector/pathogen surveillance programs and vector/disease control efforts resulting in optimum VBD control outcomes.…”

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Mosquito population structure, pathogen surveillance and insecticide resistance monitoring in urban regions of Crete, Greece

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Background In Greece vector borne diseases (VBD) and foremost West Nile virus (WNV) pose an important threat to public health and the tourist industry, the primary sector of contribution to the national economy. The island of Crete, is one of Greece’s major tourist destinations receiving annually over 5 million tourists making regional VBD control both a public health and economic priority. Methodology Under the auspices of the Region of Crete, a systematic integrative surveillance network targeting mosquitoes and associated pathogens was established in Crete for the years 2018–2020. Using conventional and molecular diagnostic tools we investigated the mosquito species composition and population dynamics, pathogen infection occurrences in vector populations and in sentinel chickens, and the insecticide resistance status of the major vector species. Principal findings Important disease vectors were recorded across the island including Culex pipiens, Aedes albopictus, and Anopheles superpictus. Over 75% of the sampled specimens were collected in the western prefectures potentially attributed to the local precipitation patterns, with Cx. pipiens being the most dominant species. Although no pathogens (flaviviruses) were detected in the analysed mosquito specimens, chicken blood serum analyses recorded a 1.7% WNV antibody detection rate in the 2018 samples. Notably detection of the first WNV positive chicken preceded human WNV occurrence in the same region by approximately two weeks. The chitin synthase mutation I1043F (associated with high diflubenzuron resistance) was recorded at an 8% allelic frequency in Lasithi prefecture Cx. pipiens mosquitoes (sampled in 2020) for the first time in Greece. Markedly, Cx. pipiens populations in all four prefectures were found harboring the kdr mutations L1014F/C/S (associated with pyrethroid resistance) at a close to fixation rate, with mutation L1014C being the most commonly found allele (≥74% representation). Voltage gated sodium channel analyses in Ae. albopictus revealed the presence of the kdr mutations F1534C and I1532T (associated with putative mild pyrethroid resistance phenotypes) yet absence of V1016G. Allele F1534C was recorded in all prefectures (at an allelic frequency range of 25–46.6%) while I1532T was detected in populations from Chania, Rethymnon and Heraklion (at frequencies below 7.1%). Finally, no kdr were detected in the Anopheles specimens included in the analyses. Conclusions/Significance The findings of our study are of major concern for VBD control in Crete, highlighting (i) the necessity for establishing seasonal integrated entomological/pathogen surveillance programs, supporting the design of targeted vector control responses and; ii) the need for establishing appropriate insecticide resistance management programs ensuring the efficacy and sustainable use of DFB and pyrethroid based products in vector control.

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Mosquito population structure, pathogen surveillance and insecticide resistance monitoring in urban regions of Crete, Greece

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“…Or, in the case of not fully using the functionality, such as only updating prices, availability of goods and some categories, solve the issue by contacting the IP of your own development using the Job class (Fig. 4) Let's move on to solving the issue of multiprocessing and optimization of the web application developed on Laravel [20,21]. With the help of this framework, it is possible to make settings so that in the Config directory, where the configuration file is located, a separate configuration file database_connect.php was specified, where the settings for a new connection will be specified in this file, so that the job is executed on a specific connection.…”

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Multiprocessing as a Way to Optimize Queries

Khrystynets,

Melnyk,

Lavrenchuk

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Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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Developing an effective web application involves the use of various methods and techniques to ensure fast and efficient processing of requests. Sometimes it is not possible to solve the problem of multiprocessing with a single tool, such as a programming language or framework. This work investigates the use of asynchronous methods of processing requests using queues. Job operation in background and non-background modes relative to the main web process is studied. Analytics are provided to analyze a web application with 13,000 requests to process daily. It is proposed to optimize the processing by using the Laravel framework and the Python server dual-tasking using the Supervisor tool on Linux, as well as using a task scheduler for each task. The paper presents positive findings about this algorithm, which contributes to the efficiency of web development and provides a great user experience on the website. Fast processing of web application requests can be a valuable competitive advantage for a business or organization. Research in this field helps to maintain their high competitiveness. In addition, the study of query processing speed is important in scientific research, as it contributes to the development of new algorithms, optimization methods and technologies.

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“…These surveillance data are openly accessible, though geographically restricted to Iowa. VectorMap-GR ( https://vectormap-gr.com/ ) is a similar geographically-restricted database of mosquito populations, limited to Crete ( Fotakis et al 2021 ). It also includes such data as confirmed larval habitats and insecticide resistance assays.…”

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Characterizing the Vector Data Ecosystem

Lippi

Rund

Ryan

2023

Journal of Medical Entomology

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A growing body of information on vector-borne diseases has arisen as increasing research focus has been directed towards the need for anticipating risk, optimizing surveillance, and understanding the fundamental biology of vector-borne diseases to direct control and mitigation efforts. The scope and scale of this information, in the form of data, comprising database efforts, data storage, and serving approaches, means that it is distributed across many formats and data types. Data ranges from collections records to molecular characterization, geospatial data to interactions of vectors and traits, infection experiments to field trials. New initiatives arise, often spanning the effort traditionally siloed in specific research disciplines, and other efforts wane, perhaps in response to funding declines, different research directions, or lack of sustained interest. Thusly, the world of vector data – the Vector Data Ecosystem – can become unclear in scope, and the flows of data through these various efforts can become stymied by obsolescence, or simply by gaps in access and interoperability. As increasing attention is paid to creating FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable, and Reusable) data, simply characterizing what is ‘out there’, and how these existing data aggregation and collection efforts interact, or interoperate with each other, is a useful exercise. This study presents a snapshot of current vector data efforts, reporting on level of accessibility, and commenting on interoperability using an illustration to track a specimen through the data ecosystem to understand where it occurs for the database efforts anticipated to describe it (or parts of its extended specimen data).

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VectorMap-GR: A local scale operational management tool for entomological monitoring, to support vector control activities in Greece and the Mediterranean Basin

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Mosquito population structure, pathogen surveillance and insecticide resistance monitoring in urban regions of Crete, Greece

Mosquito population structure, pathogen surveillance and insecticide resistance monitoring in urban regions of Crete, Greece

Multiprocessing as a Way to Optimize Queries

Characterizing the Vector Data Ecosystem

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