The use of multi-criteria evaluation for the selection of study plots for monitoring of I. ricinus ticks Example from Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/19:43899311 RIV/61989100:27350/19:10242180

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X18301699?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X18301699?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.04.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.04.014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The use of multi-criteria evaluation for the selection of study plots for monitoring of I. ricinus ticks Example from Central Europe

Original language description

Research projects in the field of eco-epidemiology of tick-borne diseases often require extensive sampling of arthropod vectors in the field. The aim of our study was to use geographical information systems (GIS) to select appropriate sampling sites of Ixodes ricinus ticks in central European habitat for further ecological studies of vector-borne pathogens (tick-borne encephalitis virus and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato). The model area was the Czech-German borderland (the region of South Bohemia and two regions in Germany: the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria) where numerous human tick-borne encephalitis cases are reported annually. We prepared the sampling site design as a multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) task. In the GIS environment, we conducted MCE with a set of environmental, socio-economic and epidemiological data (altitude, vegetation cover, number of tick-borne encephalitis cases recorded in the past, tourist activity). The MCE classified the surveyed area into two classes: suitable for tick collection and unsuitable for tick collection. Subsequently, 50 tick sampling sites were randomly selected in the suitable area: 30 in South Bohemia (Czech Republic) and 20 in the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria regions (Bavaria, Germany). The sampling sites were identified and surveyed in the field. The presence of ticks was confirmed by flagging at each of the selected plots. The described MCE system represents a versatile tool for semi-randomized design of tick sampling sites for research projects in the field of tick-borne pathogen ecology as well as for tick-borne pathogen surveillance programs run by local health authorities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30303 - Infectious Diseases

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

ISSN

1877-959X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

905-910

UT code for WoS article

000468379800025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85065020530