Lassane Percoma, Adama Sow, Yahaya Adam, Charles Mahama, Issa Sidibé, Guiguigbaza-Kossigan Dayo, Sophie Thévenon, William Font,a Safietou Sanfo, Aligui Djiteye, Ernest Salou, Vincent Djohan, Giuliano Cecchi, and Jérémy Bouyer
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Excerpt
African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) is a major constraint to sustainable development of cattle farming in sub-Saharan Africa. The habitat of the tsetse fly vector is increasingly fragmented owing to demographic pressure and shifts in climate, which leads to heterogeneous risk of cyclical transmission both in space and time. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, the most important vectors are riverine species, namely Glossina palpalis gambiensis and G.tachinoides, which are more resilient to human-induced changes than the savannah and forest species. Although many authors studied the distribution of AAT risk both in space and time, spatio-temporal models allowing predictions of it are lacking.