Data from: Using mobile phones as acoustic sensors for high-throughput mosquito surveillance
Data files
Oct 02, 2018 version files 1.23 GB
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Aedes aegypti.rar
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Aedes albopictus.rar
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Aedes mediovittatus.rar
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Aedes sierrensis.rar
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Anopheles albimanus.rar
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Anopheles arabiensis.rar
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Anopheles atroparvus.rar
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Anopheles dirus.rar
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Anopheles farauti.rar
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Anopheles freeborni.rar
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Anopheles gambiae.rar
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Anopheles merus.rar
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Anopheles minimus.rar
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Anopheles quadriannulatus.rar
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Anopheles quadrimaculatus.rar
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Anopheles stephensi.rar
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Culex pipiens.rar
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Culex quinquefasciatus.rar
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Culex tarsalis.rar
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Culiseta incidens.rar
Abstract
The direct monitoring of mosquito populations in field settings is a crucial input for shaping appropriate and timely control measures for mosquito-borne diseases. Here, we demonstrate that commercially available mobile phones are a powerful tool for acoustically mapping mosquito species distributions worldwide. We show that even low-cost mobile phones with very basic functionality are capable of sensitively acquiring acoustic data on species-specific mosquito wingbeat sounds, while simultaneously recording the time and location of the human-mosquito encounter. We survey a wide range of medically important mosquito species, to quantitatively demonstrate how acoustic recordings supported by spatio-temporal metadata enable rapid, non-invasive species identification. As proof-of-concept, we carry out field demonstrations where minimally-trained users map local mosquitoes using their personal phones. Thus, we establish a new paradigm for mosquito surveillance that takes advantage of the existing global mobile network infrastructure, to enable continuous and large-scale data acquisition in resource-constrained areas.