63159 20190709135521.0 doi 10.1038/s41467-017-00914-9 sideral 101867 ART-2017-101867 eng Palmer, J.R.B. Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted 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. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2013-43139-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 12.353 2017 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 3 / 64 = 0.047 2017 Q1 T1 6.582 2017 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) 2017 Q1 Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) 2017 Q1 Chemistry (miscellaneous) 2017 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Oltra, A. Collantes, F. Delgado, J.A. (orcid)0000-0003-0663-8411 Lucientes, J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7046-2997 Delacour, S. Universidad de Zaragoza Bengoa, M. Eritja, R. Bartumeus, F. 1009 773 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Patología Animal Área Sanidad Animal 1009 X Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Patología Animal Contratos Servicios HRA 8, 1 (2017), [13 pp] NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Nature Communications 2041-1723 3309619 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63159/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 58678 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63159/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63159 articulos driver 2019-07-09-11:57:41 ARTICLE