Table provides an overview of the definitions that are applied throughout this questionnaire and the report.
Table 1. The definitions used in the questionnaire and report
| Term | Definition |
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| Active mosquito surveillance | A system employing professional staff (e.g. from public agencies, academic institutes, private companies) to collect (often on a regular basis) information on mosquito-specific data. |
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| Animals of veterinary importance | Animals of either economical or personal importance, such as cattle or pets, often living in close proximity to humans. Livestock and companion animals. |
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| Deployment | An act of applying a system, e.g. spraying adulticide within an area around the home of a dengue case. |
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| Implementation | Putting in place a system: e.g. for reactive mosquito control in case of a detection of an autochthonous case of dengue. |
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| Mosquito control | Measures of any kind against mosquitoes, intended to limit their presence or abundance or their ability to transmit pathogens. |
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| Mosquito surveillance | Continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of mosquito-specific data that can be used in planning, implementing and evaluating public or veterinary health practice. |
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| Passive mosquito surveillance | A system by which the responsible authority/agency collates mosquito-specific data from all potential sources, without commissioning or funding field mosquito-sampling by professionals.
Citizens' contributions to surveillance ('Citizen science') is considered as part of a passive surveillance system. |
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| Preventive mosquito control | Planned mosquito control (can be triggered, e.g. by densities exceeding thresholds) aiming to reduce population densities and/or disease transmission risk |
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| Reactive mosquito control | Mosquito control in response to a detection of an introduction of an exotic species, or an imported or autochthonous disease case. |
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| Wildlife | Undomesticated animal species including abandoned/feral pets. |
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