Enkelejda Dikolli

Enkelejda Dikolli (Velo)Enkelejda Dikolli

Medical Entomologist

Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania

http://www.ishp.gov.al/

 

Role and main activities in AIMCOST

MC member

WG 1 member

Sub‐task 1.1.a deputy leader.

 

Short Bio:

Enkelejda Dikolli (Velo) obtained her PhD in Medical Entomology in 2005. Actually, she is the head of Vector Control Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, IPH, Tirana. She has 18 years experience in vector borne and zoonotic diseases with the main focus on surveillance and control of mosquitoes, sand flies and ticks. She was part of European Networks as VBORNET, VectorNet, EurNegVec and Mosquitoes Working Group in the FP7 EDENext project.  From 2014 responsible for establishment and implementation of mosquitoes control program in Tirane and coastal area in Albania.   

 

Five recent and relevant publications

  1. Tisseuil C, Velo E, Bino S, Kadriaj P, Mersini K, Shukullari A, Simaku A, Rogozi E,  Caputo B, Ducheyne E, della Torre A, Reiter P, Gilbert M. (2018) Forecasting the spatial and seasonal dynamic of Aedes albopictus oviposition activity in Albania and Balkan countries. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Feb; 12(2): e0006236. Published online 2018 Feb 12. doi:  10.1371/journal.pntd.0006236
  2. Velo E, Bongiorno G, Kadriaj P, Myrseli T, Crilly J, Lika A, Mersini K, Di Muccio T, Bino S, Gramiccia M, Gradoni L, Maroli M. (2017) The current status of phlebotomine sand flies in Albania and incrimination of Phlebotomus neglectus (Diptera, Psychodidae) as the main vector of Leishmania infantum. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179118. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179118
  3. Papa A, Velo E, Kadiaj P, Tsioka K, Kontana A, Kota M, Bino S. (2017) Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks collected from livestock in Albania. Infect Genet Evol. 2017 Oct;54:496-500. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2017.08.017. Epub 2017 Aug.
  4. Anna-Bella Failloux & Ali Bouattour & Chafika Faraj & Filiz Gunay & Nabil Haddad & Zoubir Harrat & Elizabeta Jancheska & Khalil Kanani & Mohamed Amin Kenawy & Majlinda Kota & Igor Pajovic & Lusine Paronyan & Dusan Petric & Mhammed Sarih & Samir Sawalha & Taher Shaibi  & Kurtesh Sherifi & Tatiana Sulesco & Enkelejda Velo & Lobna Gaayeb & Kathleen Victoir & Vincent Robert.(2017) Surveillance of Arthropod-Borne Viruses and Their Vectors in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions Within the MediLabSecure Network. Curr Trop Med Rep DOI 10.1007/s40475-017-0101-y. This article is part of the Topical Collection on Tropical Medicine in the Mediterranean Region.
  5. Enkelejda Velo, Perparim Kadriaj, Kujtim Mersini, Ada Shukullari, Blerta Manxhari, Artan Simaku, Adrian Hoxha, Beniamino Caputo, Luca Bolzoni, Roberto Rosà, Silvia Bino, Paul Reiter and Alessandra della Torre. (2016). “Enhancement of Aedes albopictus collections by ovitrap and sticky adult trap”. Parasites & Vectors (2016) 9:223.