Implementation of surveillance of invasive mosquitoes in Belgium according to the ECDC guidelines

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Comparison of the estimated workload, applying ECDC workload rates and formulas, and the actual workload of the ExoSurv project presented by category of personnel (workload in working days)

	Scenario 1		Scenario 2		Scenario 1 + 2
	ECDC¹	ExoSurv²	ECDC¹	ExoSurv²	ECDC¹	ExoSurv²
						Total	Post-doc	Technician
Field investigations	101	41	20	41	121	82	24	58
Laboratory investigations ³	13	26	67	22	80	48	35	13
Data processing	4	7	35	12	39	19	11	8
Communication/dissemination	4	22	31	44	35	66	41	25
Total surveillance workload	122	96	153	119	275	215	111	104
Preparatory phase		33		13		46	21	25
Total workload		129		132		261	132	129
Available wd 2012						242	121	121
Extra wd 2012						19	11	8

¹Four months surveillance, including communication and dissemination, excluding preparatory phase (following scenario 1 & 2, without adjustment for trap density).
²One month preparation (Jun-Jul, preparatory phase), four months surveillance (Jul-Oct) and two months communication and dissemination (Nov-Dec).
³Workload for laboratory investigations was divided between scenario 1 & 2 based on the number of tubes with adults and larvae, and of polystyrene pieces checked (PoE = 54%, IMS-colonised areas = 46%).

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