Results of Tick (Hyalomma and Ixodes ricinus) and Mosquito Surveillance in Croatia in 2024

Occurrence
Latest version published by Croatian Veterinary Institute on Jun 30, 2025 Croatian Veterinary Institute

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Description

Dataset contains results obtained within the framework of the project "Establishment of a Coordinated Disease Surveillance System in Croatia in Accordance with the One Health Approach (CROOH, EU4Health Programme)." The primary goal of the project is to develop an integrated surveillance system for selected zoonoses, based on the One Health concept, which includes systematic monitoring of vectors such as ticks and mosquitoes.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Beck R, Gross - Bošković A (2025). Results of Tick (Hyalomma and Ixodes ricinus) and Mosquito Surveillance in Croatia in 2024. Version 1.8. Croatian Veterinary Institute. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt-bioatlas.bioportal.hr/resource?r=oh4surveillance_hr_2024&v=1.8

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Croatian Veterinary Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fac87892-68c8-444a-9ae9-46273fdff724.  Croatian Veterinary Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Croatia.

Keywords

Occurrence; One Health; Surveillance; Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus; ticks

Contacts

Relja Beck
  • Originator
Head of Laboratory for Parasitology
Croatian Veterinary Institute
Osijek
HR
Andrea Gross - Bošković
  • Metadata Provider
Head of unit for chemical risk assessment
Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food
HR
Brigita Hengl
  • Point Of Contact
Head of Risk Assessment Department
Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food
Osijek
HR

Geographic Coverage

Republic of Croatia

Bounding Coordinates South West [42.646, 13.614], North East [46.516, 18.841]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia

Project Data

No Description available

Title OH4Surveillance 2024
Funding EFSA EU4Health_CP-g-22-04.01

The personnel involved in the project:

Brigita Hengl

Sampling Methods

Ticks were collected by dragging and collection from hosts.

Study Extent In 2024 tick were sampled by dragging and manual collection in vertebrate hosts.

Method step description:

  1. "Method steps 1. Researchers defined the appropriate sampling protocol for the target species. 2. Fieldwork was planned. 3. Data was collected in the field by specialized personnel. 4. The collected data was entered into an EFSA database 5. The data was exported and manually corrected by experts 6. Data was sent to Vectornet and validated 7. The dataset is published and registered with GBIF. Quality control Data are collected using a predefined sampling protocol and checked by professionals

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers b950ce78-00bc-4a93-b054-55034a19ca0c
https://ipt-bioatlas.bioportal.hr/resource?r=oh4surveillance_hr_2024