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Černý V, Priehodová E, Fortes-Lima C. A Population Genetic Perspective on Subsistence Systems in the Sahel/Savannah Belt of Africa and the Historical Role of Pastoralism. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:genes14030758. [PMID: 36981029 PMCID: PMC10048103 DOI: 10.3390/genes14030758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
Abstract
This review focuses on the Sahel/Savannah belt, a large region of Africa where two alternative subsistence systems (pastoralism and agriculture), nowadays, interact. It is a long-standing question whether the pastoralists became isolated here from other populations after cattle began to spread into Africa (~8 thousand years ago, kya) or, rather, began to merge with other populations, such as agropastoralists, after the domestication of sorghum and pearl millet (~5 kya) and with the subsequent spread of agriculture. If we look at lactase persistence, a trait closely associated with pastoral lifestyle, we see that its variants in current pastoralists distinguish them from their farmer neighbours. Most other (mostly neutral) genetic polymorphisms do not, however, indicate such clear differentiation between these groups; they suggest a common origin and/or an extensive gene flow. Genetic affinity and ecological symbiosis between the two subsistence systems can help us better understand the population history of this African region. In this review, we show that genomic datasets of modern Sahel/Savannah belt populations properly collected in local populations can complement the still insufficient archaeological research of this region, especially when dealing with the prehistory of mobile populations with perishable material culture and therefore precarious archaeological visibility.
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- Viktor Černý
- Archaeogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Letenská 1, 118 01 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Archaeogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Letenská 1, 118 01 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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Nelson EL, Khan SA, Thorve S, Greenough PG. Modeling pastoralist movement in response to environmental variables and conflict in Somaliland: Combining agent-based modeling and geospatial data. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0244185. [PMID: 33378352 PMCID: PMC7773237 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Pastoralism is widely practiced in arid lands and is the primary means of livelihood for approximately 268 million people across Africa. Environmental, interpersonal, and transactional variables such as vegetation and water availability, conflict, ethnic tensions, and private/public land delineation influence the movements of these populations. The challenges of climate change and conflict are widely felt by nomadic pastoralists in Somalia, where resources are scarce, natural disasters are increasingly common, and protracted conflict has plagued communities for decades. Bereft of real-time data, researchers and programmatic personnel often turn to post hoc analysis to understand the interaction between climate, conflict, and migration, and design programs to address the needs of nomadic pastoralists. By designing an Agent-Based Model to simulate the movement of nomadic pastoralists based on typologically-diverse, historical data of environmental, interpersonal, and transactional variables in Somaliland and Puntland between 2008 and 2018, this study explores how pastoralists respond to changing environments. Through subsequent application of spatial analysis such as choropleth maps, kernel density mapping, and standard deviational ellipses, we characterize the resultant pastoralist population distribution in response to these variables. Outcomes demonstrate a large scale spatio-temporal trend of pastoralists migrating to the southeast of the study area with high density areas in the south of Nugaal, the northwest of Sool, and along the Ethiopian border. While minimal inter-seasonal variability is seen, multiple analyses support the consolidation of pastoralists to specifically favorable regions. Exploration of the large-scale population, climate, and conflict trends allows for cogent narratives and associative hypotheses regarding the pastoralist migration during the study period. While this model produces compelling associations between pastoralist movements and terrestrial and conflict variables, it relies heavily on assumptions and incomplete data that are not necessarily representative of realities on the ground. Given the paucity of data regarding pastoralist decision-making and migration, validation remains challenging.
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- Erica L. Nelson
- Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Global Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Global Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Pomeroy LW, Kim H, Xiao N, Moritz M, Garabed R. Network analyses to quantify effects of host movement in multilevel disease transmission models using foot and mouth disease in Cameroon as a case study. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1007184. [PMID: 31465448 PMCID: PMC6776348 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The dynamics of infectious diseases are greatly influenced by the movement of both susceptible and infected hosts. To accurately represent disease dynamics among a mobile host population, detailed movement models have been coupled with disease transmission models. However, a number of different host movement models have been proposed, each with their own set of assumptions and results that differ from the other models. Here, we compare two movement models coupled to the same disease transmission model using network analyses. This application of network analysis allows us to evaluate the fit and accuracy of the movement model in a multilevel modeling framework with more detail than established statistical modeling fitting methods. We used data that detailed mobile pastoralists’ movements as input for 100 stochastic simulations of a Spatio-Temporal Movement (STM) model and 100 stochastic simulations of an Individual Movement Model (IMM). Both models represent dynamic movement and subsequent contacts. We generated networks in which nodes represent camps and edges represent the distance between camps. We simulated pathogen transmission over these networks and tested five network metrics–strength, betweenness centrality, three-step reach, density, and transitivity–to determine which could predict disease simulation outcomes and thereby be used to correlate model simulation results with disease transmission simulations. We found that strength, network density, and three-step reach of movement model results correlated with the final epidemic size of outbreak simulations. Betweenness centrality only weakly correlated for the IMM model. Transitivity only weakly correlated for the STM model and time-varying IMM model metrics. We conclude that movement models coupled with disease transmission models can affect disease transmission results and should be carefully considered and vetted when modeling pathogen spread in mobile host populations. Strength, network density, and three-step reach can be used to evaluate movement models before disease simulations to predict final outbreak sizes. These findings can contribute to the analysis of multilevel models across systems. Epidemics of infectious disease vary geographically and vary through time. A large part of this variation is caused by movement of individuals who are susceptible to the disease or infected with the disease. To study how movement affects epidemics, researchers often combine movement models with transmission models. However, multiple movement models have been proposed, and their effect on infectious disease model output is not well understood. Here, we combine two different movement models that we developed to represent mobile pastoralists in the Far North Region, Cameroon, with the same disease transmission model. We use network metrics to test how different movement models can affect the output of the disease transmission model. We found that three metrics could be applied to movement model output in order to predict epidemic model output. We conclude that movement models coupled with disease transmission models can affect disease transmission results and should be carefully considered and vetted when modeling epidemics.
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- Laura W. Pomeroy
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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- Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
- Department of Disease Control and Epidemiology, National Verterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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Schnell PM, Shao Y, Pomeroy LW, Tien JH, Moritz M, Garabed R. Modeling the role of carrier and mobile herds on foot-and-mouth disease virus endemicity in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Epidemics 2019; 29:100355. [PMID: 31353297 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2019.100355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) is an RNA virus that infects cloven-hoofed animals, often produces either epidemic or endemic conditions, and negatively affects agricultural economies worldwide. FMDV epidemic dynamics have been extensively studied, but understanding of drivers of disease persistence in areas in which FMDV is endemic, such as most of sub-Saharan Africa, is lacking. We present a spatial stochastic model of disease dynamics that incorporates a spatial transmission kernel in a modified Gillespie algorithm, and use it to evaluate two hypothesized drivers of endemicity: asymptomatic carriers and the movement of mobile herds. The model is parameterized using data from the pastoral systems in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Our computational study provides evidence in support of the hypothesis that asymptomatic carriers, but not mobile herds, are a driver of endemicity.
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- Patrick M Schnell
- The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics. 1841 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
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- The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy. 1841 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences. 1841 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics, 231 W 18(th) Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology, 174 W 18(th) Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, 1920 Coffey Rd, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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Pomeroy LW, Moritz M, Garabed R. Network analyses of transhumance movements and simulations of foot-and-mouth disease virus transmission among mobile livestock in Cameroon. Epidemics 2019; 28:100334. [PMID: 31387783 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2019.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Revised: 02/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) affects cloven-hoofed livestock and agricultural economies worldwide. Analyses of the 2001 FMD outbreak in the United Kingdom informed how livestock movement contributed to disease spread. However, livestock reared in other locations use different production systems that might also influence disease dynamics. Here, we investigate a livestock production system known as transhumance, which is the practice of moving livestock between seasonal grazing areas. We built mechanistic models using livestock movement data from the Far North Region of Cameroon. We represented these data as a dynamic network over which we simulated disease transmission and examined three questions. First, we asked what were characteristics of simulated FMDV transmission across a transhumant pastoralist system. Second, we asked how simulated FMDV transmission across a transhumant pastoralist system differed from transmission across this same population held artificially stationary, thereby revealing the effect of movement on disease dynamics. Third, we asked if disease simulations on well-studied theoretical networks are similar to disease simulations on this empirical dynamic network. The results show that the empirical dynamic network was sparsely connected except for an eight-week period in September and October when pastoralists move from rainy season to dry season grazing areas. The mean epidemic size across all 3,744 simulations was 99.9% and the mean epidemic duration was 1.45 years. Disease simulations across the static network showed a smaller mean epidemic size (27.6%) and a similar epidemic duration (1.5 years). Epidemics simulated on theoretical networks showed similar final epidemic sizes (100%) and different mean durations. Our simulations indicate that transhumant livestock systems have the potential to host FMDV outbreaks that affect almost all livestock and last longer than a year. Furthermore, our comparison of empirical and theoretical networks underscores the importance of using empirical data to understand the role of mobility in the transmission of infectious diseases.
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- Laura W Pomeroy
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Hirve S, Marsh A, Lele P, Chavan U, Bhattacharjee T, Nair H, Campbell H, Juvekar S. Concordance between GPS-based smartphone app for continuous location tracking and mother's recall of care-seeking for child illness in India. J Glob Health 2018; 8:020802. [PMID: 30410742 PMCID: PMC6209739 DOI: 10.7189/jogh.08.020802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Background Traditionally, health care-seeking behaviour for child illness is assessed through population-based national demographic and health surveys. GPS-based technologies are increasingly used in human behavioural research including tracking human mobility and spatial behaviour. This paper assesses how well a care-seeking event to a health care facility for child illness, as recalled by the mother in a survey setting using questions sourced from Demographic and Health Surveys, concurs with one that is identified by TrackCare, a GPS-based location-aware smartphone application. Methods Mothers residing in the Vadu HDSS area in Pune district, India having at least one young child were randomly assigned to receive a GPS-enabled smartphone with a pre-installed TrackCare app configured to record the device location data at one-minute intervals over a 6-month period. Spatio-temporal parameters were derived from the location data and used to detect a care-seeking event to any of the health care facilities in the area. Mothers were asked to recall a child illness and if, where and when care was sought, using a questionnaire during monthly visits over a 6-month period. Concordance between the mother's recall and the TrackCare app to identify a care-seeking event was estimated according to percent positive agreement. Results Mean concordance for a care-seeking event between the two methods (mother's recall and TrackCare location data) ranged up to 45%, was significantly higher (P-value <0.001) for care-seeking at a hospital as compared to a clinic and for a health care facility in the private sector compared to that in the public sector. Overall, the proportion of disagreement for a care-seeking event not detected by TrackCare but reported by mother ranged up to 77% and was significantly higher (P-value <0.001) compared to those not reported by mother but detected by TrackCare. Conclusions Given the uncertainty and limitations in use of continuous location tracking data in a field setting and the complexity of classifying human activity patterns, additional research is needed before continuous location tracking can serve as a gold standard substitute for other methods to determine health care-seeking behaviour. Future performance may be improved by incorporating other smartphone-based sensors, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, to obtain more precise location estimates in areas where GPS signal is weakest.
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- Siddhivinayak Hirve
- KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India.,Joint first author with equal contributions
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- KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India.,Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Joint first author with equal contributions
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- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.,Joint last author with equal contributions
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- KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India.,INDEPTH Network, East Legon, Accra, Ghana.,Joint last author with equal contributions
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Motta P, Porphyre T, Hamman SM, Morgan KL, Ngwa VN, Tanya VN, Raizman E, Handel IG, Bronsvoort BM. Cattle transhumance and agropastoral nomadic herding practices in Central Cameroon. BMC Vet Res 2018; 14:214. [PMID: 29970084 PMCID: PMC6029425 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-018-1515-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock transhumance represents a key adaptation strategy to environmental variability. In this context, seasonal livestock transhumance also plays an important role in driving the dynamics of multiple livestock infectious diseases. In Cameroon, cattle transhumance is a common practice during the dry season across all the main livestock production zones. Currently, the little recorded information of the migratory routes, grazing locations and nomadic herding practices adopted by pastoralists, limits our understanding of pastoral cattle movements in the country. GPS-tracking technology in combination with a questionnaire based-survey were used to study a limited pool of 10 cattle herds from the Adamawa Region of Cameroon during their seasonal migration, between October 2014 and May 2015. The data were used to analyse the trajectories and movement patterns, and to characterize the key animal health aspects related to this seasonal migration in Cameroon. RESULTS Several administrative Regions of the country were visited by the transhumant herds over more than 6 months. Herds travelled between 53 and 170 km to their transhumance grazing areas adopting different strategies, some travelling directly to their destination areas while others having multiple resting periods and grazing areas. Despite their limitations, these are among the first detailed data available on transhumance in Cameroon. These reports highlight key livestock health issues and the potential for multiple types of interactions between transhumant herds and other domestic and wild animals, as well as with the formal livestock trading system. CONCLUSION Overall, these findings provide useful insights into transhumance patterns and into the related animal health implications recorded in Cameroon. This knowledge could better inform evidence-based approaches for designing infectious diseases surveillance and control measures and help driving further studies to improve the understanding of risks associated with livestock movements in the region.
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- Paolo Motta
- The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.
- The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD) - Food and Agricolture Organization (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy.
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- The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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- Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Regional Centre of Wakwa, Ngaoundere, P.O. Box 454, Cameroon
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- Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease and School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, Liverpool, Wirral, CH64 7TE, UK
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, University of Ngaoundere, Ngaoundere, P.O. Box 454, Cameroon
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- Cameroon Academy of Sciences, Yaound'e, P.O. Box 1457, Cameroon
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- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Animal Production and Health Division, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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- The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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Judson SD, LeBreton M, Fuller T, Hoffman RM, Njabo K, Brewer TF, Dibongue E, Diffo J, Kameni JMF, Loul S, Nchinda GW, Njouom R, Nwobegahay J, Takuo JM, Torimiro JN, Wade A, Smith TB. Translating Predictions of Zoonotic Viruses for Policymakers. ECOHEALTH 2018; 15:52-62. [PMID: 29230614 DOI: 10.1007/s10393-017-1304-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2017] [Revised: 11/04/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease and Zika virus disease highlight the need for disseminating accurate predictions of emerging zoonotic viruses to national governments for disease surveillance and response. Although there are published maps for many emerging zoonotic viruses, it is unknown if there is agreement among different models or if they are concordant with national expert opinion. Therefore, we reviewed existing predictions for five high priority emerging zoonotic viruses with national experts in Cameroon to investigate these issues and determine how to make predictions more useful for national policymakers. Predictive maps relied primarily on environmental parameters and species distribution models. Rift Valley fever virus and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus predictions differed from national expert opinion, potentially because of local livestock movements. Our findings reveal that involving national experts could elicit additional data to improve predictions of emerging pathogens as well as help repackage predictions for policymakers.
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- Seth D Judson
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Epidemiology-Public Health-Veterinary Association (ESPV), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- The Chantal Biya International Reference Centre for Research on the Prevention and Management of HIV/AIDS (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- The Chantal Biya International Reference Centre for Research on the Prevention and Management of HIV/AIDS (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET) Annex, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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Comparative Diagnosis of Serum IgG1 and Coproantigen ELISA for Fasciolosis Detection of Goats in Mexico. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 2016:3860928. [PMID: 27563665 PMCID: PMC4983661 DOI: 10.1155/2016/3860928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2016] [Revised: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 07/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The objective of present study was to determine the prevalence of natural caprine fasciolosis in the Mixteca region of Mexico using coproantigen and serum IgG1 ELISA tests for comparative purposes. A total of 1070 serum and faecal samples were analyzed for IgG1 antibodies and coproantigens, using ELISA with E/S products as antigen and a monoclonal antibody-based sandwich ELISA. Prevalence of 73.46% was found using the serological ELISA and a percentage of 77.20 was found for coproantigen ELISA. The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity for serum ELISA were 86.7% and 96.4%, and for the coproantigen ELISA they were 93.1% and 97.8%, respectively. The seropositive samples were further categorized as low, medium, or high positivity. Results show a great proportion of low and medium positive goats when the serum ELISA test was used. Correlation coefficients between coproantigens and seropositivity were statistically significant (P < 0.01) for low seropositivity (r = 0.93) and medium seropositivity (r = 0.84). The accuracy of faecal antigen ELISA was higher compared to indirect ELISA serological test. Two ELISAs were shown to be useful for demonstrating the current status of F. hepatica infection in the endemic areas and can be employed in studies on epidemiology as well as anthelmintics treatment for preventing economic loss and the risk of transmission to humans.
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Martin-Gutierrez S, Borondo J, Morales AJ, Losada JC, Tarquis AM, Benito RM. Agricultural activity shapes the communication and migration patterns in Senegal. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2016; 26:065305. [PMID: 27368795 DOI: 10.1063/1.4952961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The communication and migration patterns of a country are shaped by its socioeconomic processes. The economy of Senegal is predominantly rural, as agriculture employs over 70% of the labor force. In this paper, we use mobile phone records to explore the impact of agricultural activity on the communication and mobility patterns of the inhabitants of Senegal. We find two peaks of phone calls activity emerging during the growing season. Moreover, during the harvest period, we detect an increase in the migration flows throughout the country. However, religious holidays also shape the mobility patterns of the Senegalese people. Hence, in the light of our results, agricultural activity and religious holidays are the primary drivers of mobility inside the country.
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- S Martin-Gutierrez
- Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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