A5083241036- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Malaria Research and Control
- Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Calibration and Measurement Techniques
- Energy and Environmental Systems
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Aquatic life and conservation
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
- Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
NeuroDevelopment Center
2013-2021
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1996
In 2022, Greece was the second most seriously affected European country in terms of West Nile virus (WNV), after Italy. Specifically, Central Macedonia region with reported human cases (81.5%). present study, 30,816 female Culex pipiens sensu lato mosquitoes were collected from May to September 2022 seven regional units Macedonia; they then grouped into 690 pools and tested for WNV, while next-generation sequencing applied samples, which showed a cycle threshold Ct < 30 real-time RT-PCR...
Climate can affect the geographic and seasonal patterns of vector-borne disease incidence such as West Nile Virus (WNV) infections. We explore association between climatic factors occurrence fever (WNF) or neuro-invasive (WNND) in humans Northern Greece over years 2010-2014. Time series a period 30 (1979-2008) data air temperature, relative humidity, soil volumetric water content, wind speed, precipitation representing average climate were obtained utilising ECMWF's (European Centre for...
To gain insight into the strain(s) causing human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) infection in Greece 2012, mosquitoes were collected and tested for probable WNV infection. lineage 2 sequences obtained from two 14 Culex spp. pools Xanthi Prefecture, especially municipality with highest incidence Greece. As previous years, strain contains H249P substitution NS3 protein. It seems that this specific is fully established causes large-scale outbreaks. Thus, prevention control measures have to be...
West Nile virus (WNV) emerged in central Macedonia, northern Greece, 2010. The aim of the study was to test Culex mosquitoes for genetic detection WNV and other flaviviruses, check whether correlated with occurrence human cases. During 2013, 25 780 spp. were collected from grouped into 295 pools, according collection site date, tested presence flavivirus RNA. Thirteen (4.4%) pools flavivirus-positive. lineage 2 detected nine (3.1%) insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFV) four (1.4%). Three ISFV...
Surface-water body maps are imperative for effective mosquito larvae control. This study aims to select a method the automatic and regular mapping of surface-water bodies in rice fields wetlands using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar data. Four methods were adapted developed automated application: Otsu valley-emphasis algorithm, classification based on textural feature entropy, K-means unsupervised classification, Haralick's dissimilarity fuzzy-rules classification. The results assessed...
The determination of time for grape harvest is probably the most important decision wine making producers, because grapes are not climacteric fruits and if they harvested before fully ripe their quality compromised. This sugar content, aroma color compounds increase only non-climacteric fruits. current practice determining berry ripeness includes measurements samples total soluble solids (TSS) pH, but this procedure consuming laborious. On other hand, with development unmanned aerial...
Since the large WN fever epidemic in Central Macedonia 2010 caused by WNV Lineage 2, with a total of 262 cases (197 neuroinvasive, incidence rate 1:140), are reported every year from different areas throughout Greece (2011: 100 cases/75 2012: 161/109, 2013: 86/51). has become one most important issues for National Health Authorities terms vector-borne diseases. From 2011 and onwards, surveillance Macedonia, two major networks were established Ecodevelopment collaboration Hellenic CDC,...
The monitoring of mosquito breeding habitats requires the production surface water maps on a regular basis and at high-resolution using mapping algorithms. To map water, several machine learning (ML) algorithms were evaluated, taking advantage frequently available synthetic aperture radar imagery from Sentinel-1 mission with 10-m spatial resolution large dataset field observations state (inundated/dry) in rice paddies wetlands. One-class support vector machine, one-class self-organizing map,...