MSc. Nikolina Sokolovska
Public Health Institute Skopje
Center for public health
Skopje, North Macedonia
Field of interest: Medical entomology
BAVBD contribution:
I would like to cooperate with BAVBD about medical entomology, exchange of field experiences for monitoring and surveillance of vectors of medical importance (mosquitoes, ticks, sand flies, fleas, etc.). Vector control, insecticide resistance and PCR testing of their pathogen carriage. Also of great interest to me is invasive species surveillance. Creation of a database of current vector species and their mapping.
Relevant references:
Nikolina S., Jovanka K., Shemsi M., Liljana L., Luljzime B., Zlatko A. Our Experience in Collecting Tiger Mosquitoes Using Ovitraps in Strumica, Gevgelija and the Border Crossing to Greece, DOI:10.17265/2328- 7136/2017.06.010
Nikolina, S., Stanislava, L., Zlatko, A. Monitoring of the mosquito es in FYRO Macedonia in the past and current activities-poster presentation COST Action TD1303, Romania, 2014.
Nikolina, S., Besim, Z., Nebahat., I., Kristijan, J.- Surveillance of the invasive tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera:Culicidae) in Skopje from 2017-2021-poster presentation 22 nd Conference The European Society for Vector Ecology, Abstract Book, October 2022.
Srgjan M., Paolo P., Jovana S., Aleksandar C., Kiril K., Igor Dj., Gordana K., Nikolina S., Francesca B., Stefano G., Giorgia A. First comprehensive study on West Nile in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)EFSA 2018 Conference: SCIENCE, FOOD, SOCIETY. EFSA JOURNAL
Nikolina S., Jovanka K., Shemsi M., Liljana L., Luljzime B., Zlatko A. Surveillance of invasive mosquitoes in the Republic of Macedonia in 2016-2017, VI Congress of Macedonian Microbiologist with international participation, 2018. ISSN 0025-1097
Nikolina S., Liljana L., Zlatko A. Monitoring of the mosquitoes in Skopje 2016 and impact of flood in municipality Gazi Baba of the mosquitoes populations, International Conference of Applied Sciences Engineering and Mathematics, 2017 Balkan University
Nikolina S., Mirta S B., Pavle J. , Violeta J., Nataša JH. , Besim Z., Nebahat Il., Usefulness and importance of citizen involvement in mosquito control activities in North Macedonia, DDD I ZUPP, 2024 Mošćenička Draga, Croatia
Mirjana S., Vladimir V., Aleksandra P., Snezana M., Tatjana P., Vladimir P., Dajana F L., Mirjana K. L.,Jelena P., Nurka P., Ljubica J., Nikolina S., Mioljub R. Epidemiological study on the incidence of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in five Western Balkan countries for a 10‐year period: 2006–2015. January 2022 Zoonoses and Public Health 69(9) DOI: 10.1111/zph.12908
Miguel Angel Miranda et al. ,,AIMSurv: First pan-European harmonized surveillance of Aedes invasive mosquito species of relevance for human vector-borne diseases. May 2022 DOI: 10.46471/gigabyte.57
Živko Južnič et al. ,,Mosquito alert: leveraging citizen science to create a GBIF mosquito occurrence dataset,, May 2022DOI:10. 46471/GIGABYTE_SERIES_0002
Lazarevska, L., Musa, Sh., Sokolovska, N., Arsenievski, Z., Bajrami, Lj., Danilovska, B., Imeri, Lj., Stojanov, A., Gocevska , M., Action plan to put under control vector transmitted diseases, with special emphasis on mosquitoes, using short and long term measures in Macedonia " -DDD I ZUPP, 2017 Mošćenička Draga, Croatia, ISSN 1849-6741
Rahola N, Günay F, Öztürk M, Alten B, Aqeehal HA, Saadawi WK, Shaibi T, Kavran M, Petrić D, Mitrović J, Pajovic I, Velo E, Kadriaj P, Rogozi E, Jani V, Manucharyan A, Paronyan L, Sawalha S, M'ghirbi Y, Bouattour A, Rhim A, Ouni A, Samy AM, Abozeid S, Sarih M, Assaid N, Arich S, Sokolovska N, Janceska E, Benallal KE, Haddad N, Zakhia R, Muja-Bajraktari N, Sherifi K, Arbaji M, Marić J, Santrac V, Dolidze N, Boussès P, Deblauwe I, Schaffner F, Robert V. Assessment of expertise in morphological identification of mosquito species (Diptera, Culicidae) using photomicrographs. Parasite. 2022;29:45. doi: 10.1051/parasite/2022045. Epub 2022 Oct 6. PMID: 36200781; PMCID: PMC9536171.