In order to meet increasing needs to manage large amounts of data, Entomogen has developed a secure online database that can be customized to meet your specific needs. The database is constantly updated and available to our clients on a twenty-four hour basis. Data are graphed weekly to provide up-to-date results. Entomogen staff are available by phone or e-mail to assist you with any questions.

Your Health Unit database can be customized to:

1. Make it compatible with Microsoft Excel and Access;
2. Link it to a human surveillance database;
3. Link it to a dead bird database;
4. Link it to a standing water database;
5. Link it to the National Climate Database operated by Environment Canada;
6. Integrate the GPS/location data with Google Maps service;
7. Design and generate reports in a variety of formats including Excel, PDF, CSV, XML, and HTML;
8. Generate graphs and charts dynamically (i.e. pie chart, column chart, bar graph, line graph and area graph).

Entomogen is now offering blood meal analyses for blood-fed female mosquitoes. Our protocols are based on the peer reviewed scientific literature. Each blood-fed mosquito is first identified to species by a trained entomologist. DNA is then extracted from the blood meal in the abdomen of the mosquito, followed by PCR analysis using primers specific to potential blood meal hosts. We routinely test for avian, mammal and human blood meals using sequence analysis of the Cytochrome B gene. Data generated from the identification of blood meals helps our clients to better understand the transmission patterns of various mosquito borne diseases in their jurisdictions.

Our company has developed a software package that can predict West Nile virus outbreaks using degree-day models based on environmental data and mosquito surveillance data. We run Health Unit data simulations to test the predictive competency of our WNv Risk Assessment computer program.