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

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Palmer, John R B ^a,b,c   Oltra, Aitana ^a,c   Collantes, Francisco ^d   Delgado, Juan Antonio ^d   Lucientes, Javier ^e   Delacour, Sarah ^e   Bengoa, Mikel ^e   Eritja, Roger ^c   Bartumeus, Frederic ^a,c,f  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CREAF   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIKUNGUNYA; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MODEL VALIDATION; MOSQUITO; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RELIABILITY; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SPAIN; AEDES; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DENGUE VIRUS; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MOBILE PHONE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; ZIKA VIRUS;

SPAIN;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS;

AEDES; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL PHONE; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DENGUE VIRUS; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; VIRUS DISEASES; ZIKA VIRUS;

EID: 85032171285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00914-9     Document Type: Article

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