Description
Material provided: By agreement of provider and user.
Unit definition: 1 week of access
Provider country: Switzerland
Short description: Access to field sites and laboratory facilities to evaluate suitable trapping methodologies for sand flies in peri-urban and urban sites located in Southern Switzerland.
Specific description:
Personalized Training on surveillance sand flies in the field and in the laboratory.
Specific services offered:
- Field site access with technical assistance and/or practical training for research on the surveillance of sand flies.
- Identification and characterisation of suitable sites for the presence of adult and larval stages of sand flies vector species.
- Larval collection from organic substrates using flotation methodology.
- Setting up traps for collecting adult stages (CDC, sticky traps)
- Collection and storage of individuals captured.
- Identification of adults using morphological and molecular (PCR) tools
- Data interpretation and discussion.
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