Interdisciplinarity and Infectious Diseases: An Ebola Case Study

Vanessa O Ezenwa; Anne-Helene Prieur-Richard; Benjamin Roche; Xavier Bailly; Pierre Becquart; Gabriel E García-Peña; Parviez R Hosseini; Felicia Keesing; Annapaola Rizzoli; Gerardo Suzán; Marco Vignuzzi; Marion Vittecoq; James N Mills; Jean-François Guégan

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004992

Interdisciplinarity and Infectious Diseases: An Ebola Case Study

PLoS Pathog. 2015 Aug 6;11(8):e1004992. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004992. eCollection 2015 Aug.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Odum School of Ecology and Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.
² DIVERSITAS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
³ UMI IRD/UPMC 209 UMMISCO, Bondy, France.
⁴ INRA, UR346 Épidémiologie Animale, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
⁵ UMR 5290 IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
⁶ UMR 5290 IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, Montpellier, France; CESAB-Centre de Synthèse et d'Analyse sur la Biodiversité, Aix-en-Provence, France.
⁷ EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America.
⁸ Biology Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States of America.
⁹ Fondazione Edmund Mach, Department of Biodiveristy and Molecular Ecology, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy.
¹⁰ Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México, Distrito Federal, México.
¹¹ Institut Pasteur, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis, CNRS UMR 3569, Paris, France.
¹² Centre de recherche de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, Arles, France.
¹³ Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Communicable Diseases*
Ebolavirus
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / transmission
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication*

Grants and funding

This study is a contribution of the "Disentangling the Linkages between Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Diseases" (BIODIS) working group. BIODIS is supported by the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB), the DIVERSITAS-ecoHEALTH project, and the French Centre for Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB). CESAB receives financial support from DIVERSITAS and Fondation Total. VOE received support from a US Fulbright Scholar Award; BR and JFG were funded by an “Investissement d’Avenir” Laboratoire d’Excellence Centre d’Etude de la Biodiversité Amazonienne Grant (ANR-10-LABX-25-01); and GEGP received a postdoctoral fellowship from FRB/CESAB. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.