Detecting Zika Infected Mosquitoes Using Simple Flip-Phones: Shazam for Mosquitoes

Development of a mobile phone application that allows for the detection of mosquito species using acoustic surveillance through global crowdsourcing. Mosquito-generated species-specific sounds can be recorded on a cellphone, and the distinct frequencies are processed to build biomarkers for a given species, and together with phone-based metadata enable the species-specific identification of mosquitoes in near real-time.