TY - JOUR AU - de Thoisy, Benoit AU - Duron, Olivier AU - Epelboin, Loïc AU - Musset, Lise AU - Quénel, Philippe AU - Roche, Benjamin AU - Binetruy, Florian AU - Briolant, Sébastien AU - Carvalho, Luisiane AU - Chavy, Agathe :. Couppié AU - and all ........................... PY - 2021// TI - Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases in French Guiana: Transdisciplinarity does matter to tackle new emerging threats JO - Infection, Génétics and Evolution SP - 104916 VL - 93 PB - Elsevier N2 - French Guiana is a European ultraperipheric region located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It constitutes an important forested region for biological conservation in the Neotropics. Although very sparsely populated, with its inhabitants mainly concentrated on the Atlantic coastal strip and along the two main rivers, it is marked by the presence and development of old and new epidemic disease outbreaks, both research and health priorities. In this review paper, we synthetize 15 years of multidisciplinary and integrative research at the interface between wildlife, ecosystem modification, human activities and sociodemographic development, and human health. This study reveals a complex epidemiological landscape marked by important transitional changes, facilitated by increased interconnections between wildlife, land-use change and human occupation and activity, human and trade transportation, demography with substantial immigration, and identified vector and parasite pharmacological resistance. Among other French Guianese characteristics, we demonstrate herein the existence of more complex multi-host disease life cycles than previously described for several disease systems in Central and South America, which clearly indicates that today the greater promiscuity between wildlife and humans due to demographic and economic pressures may offer novel settings for microbes and their hosts to circulate and spread. French Guiana is a microcosm that crystallizes all the current global environmental, demographic and socioeconomic change conditions, which may favor the development of ancient and future infectious diseases. UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2021.104916 N1 - exported from refbase (http://php.ecofog.gf/refbase/show.php?record=1052), last updated on Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:57:15 -0300 ID - deThoisy_etal2021 ER -