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Human and animal vector-borne diseases, particularly mosquito-borne diseases, are emerging or re-emerging worldwide. Six Aedes invasive mosquito (AIM) species were introduced to Europe since the 1970s: Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Ae. japonicus, Ae. koreicus, Ae. atropalpus and Ae. triseriatus. Here, we report the results of AIMSurv2020, the first pan-European surveillance effort for AIMs. Implemented by 42 volunteer teams from 24 countries. And presented in the form of a dataset named “AIMSurv Aedes Invasive Mosquito species harmonized surveillance in Europe. AIM-COST Action. Project ID: CA17108”. AIMSurv2020 harmonizes field surveillance methodologies for sampling different AIMs life stages, frequency and minimum length of sampling period, and data reporting. Data include minimum requirements for sample types and recommended requirements for those teams with more resources. Data are published as a Darwin Core archive in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility- Spain, comprising a core file with 19,130 records (EventID) and an occurrences file with 19,743 records (OccurrenceID). AIM species recorded in AIMSurv2020 were Ae. albopictus, Ae. japonicus and Ae. koreicus, as well as native mosquito species. This study was funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy) under the project ‘Coordinated surveillance actions on invasive alien species and emerging vector borne diseases’; the City Health Office of the City of Zagreb, within the ‘Program for monitoring invasive mosquito species in the area of the City of Zagreb in 2020’; the Consejería de Economía e Infraestructura of the Junta de Extremadura and the European Regional Development Fund, a Way to Make Europe, through the research project IB16135; Dirección de Salud Pública (Gobierno Vasco), Project EU-LIFE 18 IPC/ES/000001 (Urban Klima 2050) y Programa Estatal de Vigilancia de mosquitos en puertos y Aeropuertos, del Ministerio de Sanidad (Gobierno de España); EMME-CARE project, which has been funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement ID 856612); Institute of Zoology under the project EVOLANTER (project no. 20.80009.7007.02). RL is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under the project NEED (grant no. 01Kl2022); LIFE CONOPS project (LIFE12 ENV/GR/000466), funded by the European Commission in the framework of the program LIFE + Environment Policy and Governance; Municipalities of Slovenia: City Municipality of Nova Gorica, City Municipality of Koper, Municipality of Izola, Municipality of Piran and Municipality of Ankaran; National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH grant numbers KH-130379, PD-135143, FK-138563 and K-135841). The research activity of KK was supported by the Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the ÚNKP-20-5-PTE-597 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology; Portuguese National Program for Vector Surveillance (REVIVE) and we are particularly grateful to the regional workgroup of Algarve for the monitoring activities; PR (19_ECO_0070) project ‘Aves y Enfermedades Infecciosas Emergentes: Impacto de las Especies Exóticas y Migratorias en la transmisión de Malaria aviar y el virus del Nilo Occidental – AvEIEs’ from ‘Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Equipos de Investigación Científica 2019’; project grant number 57 PCCDI/2018, grant agency ‘The Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation’ (UEFISCDI) Romania, ‘Collegium Talentum Programme’ of Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University’s ‘Homeland higher education study grant’; Slovak Research Agency VEGA nr. 2/0140/21; Vector Control Needs Assessment in Cyprus, contracted by the World Health Organization (reference 2020/1040069-0); Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia Regions (Regional Prevention Plans ‘Entomological Surveillance of vector-borne diseases’ in the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia Regions); the Institute of Public Health, Albania under the program of mosquitoes control in urban and coastal areas.

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The aim is to study the relationship of Philadelphia positive (Ph+) - Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) with endothelial nitric oxide (NOS3) gene variants (intron 4 VNTR and 894G> T). Two NOS3 gene variants were evaluated in 59 CML patients and 100 healthy controls. Variants for the NOS3 gene were detected by PCR and/or PCR-RFLP. When compared with the healthy control group (p: 0.000 and 0.011, respectively), the researchers found that NOS3 (894G>T) TT genotype and T allele were higher in the patients with CML. The researchers found that NOS3 (intron 4 VNTR) BB genotype and B allele were higher in the patients with CML in comparison with the healthy control group (p: 0.040 and 0.046, respectively). Regarding haplotype frequency, haplotypes 33, 32, 31 and 23 (BBTT, BBGT, BBGG and ABTT) were found to be existing in CML only. The researchers demonstrated that these two variants could play a role in the ethiopathogenesis of CML.

Nitric oxide (NO) plays complicated roles in carcinogenesis. Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene is responsible for most of the NO produced. For this reason, it was considered that the eNOS gene variants is associated with cancer suspectibility. The aim of this study was to determine whether eNOS variants (G894T and intron 4 VNTR a/b) affect in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) risk in Turkish patients. This is a prospective single-center crosssectional study in patients with CLL. A total of 60 CLL patients and 100 healthy controls with similar age and sex were included to this study. Two eNOS gene variants (G894T and intron 4VNTR a/b) were analysed with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and/or restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) methods. In this study, we found that the TT genotype of eNOS G894T variant was significantly associated with an increased risk in patient with CLL compared with control (OR: 0.867, CI: 0.785-0.957, p= 0.001). There was not any significant difference in the eNOS G894T allele distribution between the groups (p > 0.05). In addition, no significant difference was detected between the CLL patients and healthy controls with respect to the frequencies of genotypes and alleles in intron 4 VNTR a/b variant of eNOS. eNOS gene variants (G894T and intron 4 VNTR a/b) in CLL patients were simultaneously analyzed for the first time in present study. Our study suggest that the eNOS G894T variant may be associated with the development of CLL in the Turkish population.

WOS: 000320852500003, PubMed ID: 23429302, Objective: Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous syndrome which is characterized by severe intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, and typical characteristic facial dysmorphisms. It has been associated with maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) for chromosome 7 and hypomethylation of imprinting control region 1 (IGF2/H19) in 11p15. UPD refers to the situation in which both copies of a chromosome pair have originated from one parent. UPD can be presented both as partial heterodisomy and isodisomy. The aim of this study was to determine the maternal UPD7 (matUPD7) in 13 Turkish SRS patients. Methods: Genotyping for matUPD7 was performed with microsatellite markers by polymerase chain reaction. Findings: The maternal UPD7 including the entire chromosome was identified in 1/13 (7.6 %) of individuals within SRS patients. There were no significant differences between clinical features of matUPD7 case and other SRS cases except congenital heart defects. Conclusion: It is often difficult to establish diagnosis of a child with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), growth failure and dysmorphic features. Thus, screening for matUPD7 in IUGR children with growth failure and mild SRS features might be a valuable diagnostic tool.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) gene polymorphisms Q192R, and L55M in patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) patients. Materials and Methods: We analyzed samples from 60 patients with CML, 60 with CLL and 84 healthy controls. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) - Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RLFP) was performed and samples were run in agarose gel. Results: We found statistically significant results showing an increase in both the RR genotype (p=0.044) and the R allele (p=0.011) for PON1 Q192R, and an increase in the MM genotype (p=0.007) and a decrease in the LL genotype (p=0.004) and R allele (p=0.001) in PON1 L55M in patients with CLL. Conclusion: We concluded that both the Q192R gene polymorphism with an increase in the genotype R allele, and the M/L55 with an increase in the MM genotype play a role in CLL susceptibility, and a decrease in the LL genotype can act against disease in the Turkish population.

AIM: The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) gene polymorphisms Q192R, and L55M in patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed samples from 60 patients with CML, 60 with CLL and 84 healthy controls. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)--Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RLFP) was performed and samples were run in agarose gel. RESULTS: We found statistically significant results showing an increase in both the RR genotype (p=0.044) and the R allele (p=0.011) for PON1 Q192R, and an increase in the MM genotype (p=0.007) and a decrease in the LL genotype (p=0.004) and R allele (p=0.001) in PON1 L55M in patients with CLL. CONCLUSION: We concluded that both the Q192R gene polymorphism with an increase in the genotype R allele, and the M/L55 with an increase in the MM genotype play a role in CLL susceptibility, and a decrease in the LL genotype can act against disease in the Turkish population.

Field trials were carried out in 2011 and 2012 in the Adana Province, Turkey in order to determine the effectiveness of sticky traps of four different colors (white, yellow, blue and green) against thrips (Thysanoptera) in "Okitsu" Mandarin trees. Onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) appeared on the sticky colored traps and in flowers more often than other identified thrips species. Most of the T tabaci were captured by the colored traps at trees' blooming stages and to a lesser extent at fruiting stages. Significantly higher numbers of T. tabaci were captured on the white color traps than on other color traps, therefore the effectiveness and efficiency of white color traps, in comparison with blue or green color traps, was proved. In addition, white color traps attached to the south or east sides of outer branches trapped significantly higher numbers of T. tabaci. This is more likely to be attributed to the host plants of the thrips which surrounded the experimental area.