The CROOH project presented at the 36th DDD ZUPP seminar in Crikvenica

The 36th scientific and educational seminar with the international participation DDD and ZUPP 2025 (Activity of disinfection, disinsection, pest control and protection of stored agricultural products) with the overall topic “vector diseases and climate change” was held in Crikvenica from April 22 to 25, 2025. Therefore, it was appropriate to hold a presentation on the CROOH project within the first section entitled “Integrated mosquito control”, with an emphasis on project’s part dealing with an integrated vector control system, i.e. mosquitoes and ticks. The CROOH project planned the sampling of Culex pipiens mosquitoes for the purpose of monitoring West Nile Disease, and mosquitoes of the genus Aedes for the purpose of monitoring Rift Valley Fever. Of the ticks, the project will include the species Ixodes ricinus for monitoring tick-borne encephalitis, Q fever and Lyme disease, and Hyalomma marginatum for monitoring Congo hemorrhagic fever. In addition to the presentation, the full work of the group of authors Pavle Jeličić, Luka Deal, Barbara Bekavac and Brigita Hengl was published in the proceedings with the title CROOH Project: Establishment of a coordinated disease surveillance system in accordance with the “One Health” approach in the Republic of Croatia.


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