ReviewComptes rendus biologies2011
Ecosystem dynamics, biological diversity and emerging infectious diseases.
Review in Comptes rendus biologies, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mechanistic models of Rift Valley fever virus transmission: A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Increasing spatial scale of analysis weakens and can mask the dilution effect for hantaviruses.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
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- Multihost/Multivector Community Network: Disentangling Sandfly Species and Host Interactions in Avian Habitats.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- Implications of COVID-19 for Public Health Theory and Praxis From a Complex Systems Perspective.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review of Viral Diseases in African Ungulates.Veterinary sciences · 2021Article
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- Implications of human activities for (re)emerging infectious diseases, including COVID-19.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2020Review
- Emerging human infectious diseases of aquatic origin: a comparative biogeographic approach using Bayesian spatial modelling.International journal of health geographics · 2019Article
- Patterns of avian haemosporidian infections vary with time, but not habitat, in a fragmented Neotropical landscape.PloS one · 2018Article
- Avian species diversity and transmission of West Nile virus in Atlanta, Georgia.Parasites & vectors · 2017Article
- Deforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease,Science advances · 2016Article
- Functional Diversity as a New Framework for Understanding the Ecology of an Emerging Generalist Pathogen.EcoHealth · 2016Article
- Effect of landscape features on the relationship between Ixodes ricinus ticks and their small mammal hosts.Parasites & vectors · 2016Article
- Global trends in infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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- Seasonal and spatial heterogeneities in host and vector abundances impact the spatiotemporal spread of bluetongue.Veterinary research · 2013Article
- Human ecology in pathogenic landscapes: two hypotheses on how land use change drives viral emergence.Current opinion in virology · 2013Review
- Identifying the Achilles' heel of multi-host pathogens: The concept of keystone "host" species illustrated byEnvironmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2013Article
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Abstract
In this article, we summarize the major scientific developments of the last decade on the transmission of infectious agents in multi-host systems. Almost sixty percent of the pathogens that have emerged in humans during the last 30-40 years are of animal origin and about sixty percent of them show an important variety of host species besides humans (3 or more possible host species). In this review, we focus on zoonotic infections with vector-borne transmission and dissect the contrasting effects that a multiplicity of host reservoirs and vectors can have on their disease dynamics. We discuss the effects exerted by host and vector species richness and composition on pathogen prevalence (i.e., reduction, including the dilution effect, or amplification). We emphasize that, in multiple host systems and for vector-borne zoonotic pathogens, host reservoir species and vector species can exert contrasting effect locally. The outcome on disease dynamics (reduced pathogen prevalence in vectors when the host reservoir species is rich and increased pathogen prevalence when the vector species richness increases) may be highly heterogeneous in both space and time. We then ask briefly how a shift towards a more systemic perspective in the study of emerging infectious diseases, which are driven by a multiplicity of hosts, may stimulate further research developments. Finally, we propose some research avenues that take better into account the multi-host species reality in the transmission of the most important emerging infectious diseases, and, particularly, suggest, as a possible orientation, the careful assessment of the life-history characteristics of hosts and vectors in a community ecology-based perspective.
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