Main description:

In recent years, the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases has been studied extensively and new approaches to the study of host-pathogen interactions continue to emerge. At the same time, pathogen control in low-income countries has tended to remain largely informed by classical epidemiology, where the objective is to treat as many people as possible, despite recent research suggesting new opportunities for improved disease control in the context of limited
economic resources. The need to integrate the scientific developments in the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases with public health strategy in low-income countries is now more important than ever.

This novel text uniquely incorporates the latest research in ecology and evolutionary biology into the discussion of public health issues in low-income countries. It brings together an international team of experts from both universities and health NGOs to provide an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, focusing on low-income countries for effective public health applications and outcomes. It discusses a range of public health
threats including malaria, TB, HIV, measles, Ebola, tuberculosis, influenza and meningitis among others.

Contents:

PrefacePeter Hotez:
1: Benjamin Roche, Thierry Baldet and Frederic Simard: Infectious diseases in low-income countries: Where are we now?
2: Frederic Pages, Dominique Maison and Michael Faulde: Current control strategies for infectious diseasesin low income countries
3: Rebecca Grais: Research in crises: overcoming obstacles and lessons for the future
Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword I: The burden
4: Cecile Viboud, Helene Broutin and Gerardo Chowell: Spatial-temporal transmission dynamics and control of infectious diseases: Ebola virus disease (EVD) as a case study
5: Rodolphe E. Gozlan and Marine Combe: Environmental change and pathogen transmission
6: Anne-Laure Banuls, Van Anh Thi Nguyen, Quang Huy Nguyen, Ngoc Anh Thi Nguyen, Hoang Huy Tran and Sylvain Godreuil: Antimicrobial resistance: the 70-year arms race between Humans and Bacteria
7: Jessica Lynn Webster and Marco Vignuzzi: Viral evolution and impact for public health strategies in low-income countries
Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword II: Fundamental knowledge
8: Matthew Ferrari: Using Disease Dynamics and Modeling to Inform Control Strategies in Low-Income Countries
9: Paul W. Ewald: Evolutionary control of infectious disease in low-income countries
10: Mathieu Nacher: Using pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities
11: Patrick Mavingui, Claire Valiente Moro and Pablo Tortosa: Exploiting symbiotic interactions for vector/disease control
12: Heather Ferguson, Patrick Brock and Steve Torr: Host species diversity and the transmission of vector-borne disease in low income countries
Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword III: Tunable methods
13: Marco Pombi, David Modiano and Gilberto Corbellini: Malaria eradication in Italy: the story of a first success
14: Andres Garchitorena, Matthew H. Bonds, Jean-Francois Guegan and Benjamin Roche: Interactions between ecological and socio-economic drivers of Buruli ulcer burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Opportunities for an improved control.
15: Isabel Jones, Andrea Lund, Gilles Riveau, Nicolas Jouanard, Raphael A. Ndione, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo: Ecological control of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa: restoration of predator-prey dynamics to reduce transmission
Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword IV: Case studies
16: Eve Miguel, Florence Fournet, Serge Yerbanga, Nicolas Moiroux, Franck Yao, Timothee Vergne, Bernard Cazelles, Roch K. Dabire, Frederic Simard and Benjamin Roche: Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: Epidemiology, ecology and evolution for the control of malaria.
17: Jan Slingenbergh, Giuliano Cecchi and Marjan Leneman: Human activities and disease transmission: the agriculture case
18: Matthew H. Bonds, Andres Garchitorena, Paul E. Farmer and Megan B. Murray: Ecology of Poverty, Disease and Health Care Delivery: Lessons for Planetary Health
19: Dominique Kerouedan: African and global health care prospects: The importance of the use of knowledge
20: Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard, on behalf of all authors: Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: The challenge to apply the scientific knowledge and for which disease?
AfterwordAwa Marie Coll Seck and Ibrahima Seck: