ReviewEcoHealth2017
Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Primate Contact and Pathogenic Disease Spillover.
Review in EcoHealth, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
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- High potential for zoonotic pathogen emergence through wildlife exposure in East Cameroon.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Eco-epidemiology of arbovirus infections among non-human primates in Southeastern Brazil.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Putting behaviors into context for vector-borne diseases: Examining behaviors that may reduce exposure to disease vectors.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Prevalence of culicine salivary antibodies in non-human primates living in national parks in Thailand.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2025Article
- Seasonal Patterns of Mpox Index Cases, Africa, 1970-2021.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Article
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- Higher convergence of human-great ape enteric eukaryotic viromes in central African forest than in a European zoo: a One Health analysis.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health.Medical anthropology · 2023Article
- It Was Not the Perfect Storm: The Social History of the HIV-2 Virus in Guinea-Bissau.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Living Safely With Bats: Lessons in Developing and Sharing a Global One Health Educational Resource.Global health, science and practice · 2022Review
- Postscript: A pandemic read on African health and environmental histories.Health & place · 2022Article
- Sparse Evidence forPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Potential zoonotic pathogens hosted by endangered bonobos.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Implications of Zoonoses From Hunting and Use of Wildlife in North American Arctic and Boreal Biomes: Pandemic Potential, Monitoring, and Mitigation.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
- Social representations of animal diseases: anthropological approaches to pathogens crossing species barriers.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2021Article
- An Ethnographic Approach to Characterizing Potential Pathways of Zoonotic Disease Transmission from Wild Meat in Guyana.EcoHealth · 2020Article
- Multidisciplinarity in Microbiome Research: A Challenge and Opportunity to Rethink Causation, Variability, and Scale.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2019Review
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Zoonotic transmissions are a major global health risk, and human-animal contact is frequently raised as an important driver of transmission. A literature examining zooanthroponosis largely agrees that more human-animal contact leads to more risk. Yet the basis of this proposition, the term contact, has not been rigorously analyzed. To understand how contact is used to explain cross-species spillovers, we conducted a multi-disciplinary review of studies addressing human-nonhuman primate (NHP) engagements and pathogenic transmissions and employing the term contact. We find that although contact is frequently invoked, it is employed inconsistently and imprecisely across these studies, overlooking the range of pathogens and their transmission routes and directions. We also examine a related but more expansive approach focusing on human and NHP habitats and their spatial overlap, which can potentially facilitate pathogenic transmission. Contact and spatial overlap investigations cannot, however, explain the processes that bring together people, animals and pathogens. We therefore examine another approach that enhances our understanding of zoonotic spillovers: anthropological studies identifying such historical, social, environmental processes. Comparable to a One Health approach, our ongoing research in Cameroon draws contact, spatial overlap and anthropological-historical approaches into dialog to suggest where, when and how pathogenic transmissions between people and NHPs may occur. In conclusion, we call for zoonotic disease researchers to specify more precisely the human-animal contacts they investigate and to attend to how broader ecologies, societies and histories shape pathogen-human-animal interactions.
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