DOBIGNY Gauthier
gauthier.dobigny@ird.fr

Gauthier DOBIGNY

Research manager, IRD

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Collective responsibility(ies)

Co-leader of the IRD collective « Santé Environnement dans les Villes Africaines et Malgaches » (SEVAM)

Écologie des zoonoses associées aux micromammifères (ex. peste, leptospirose, typhus, hantaviroses) dans les socio-écosystèmes urbains africains et malagasy ; gestion des rongeurs dans les villes africaines et malagasy ; rôle des échanges internationaux dans la dissémination des rongeurs réservoirs de pathogènes humaines

Mes toutes dernières publications :

Dalecky A., Sow I., Danzabarma A.A.I., Garba M., Etougbétché J., Badou S., Dossou H.J., Niang C.T., Diene O., Diallo I., Saghiri M.S.A., El Hady Sidatt M., van Steenbergen F., Bal A.B., Bosma L., Houéménou G., Ag Atteyine S., Hima K., Dobigny G. & Meheretu Y., 2024. From problem to progress: rodent management in agricultural settings of sub-Saharan Africa, and calling for an urban perspective. Crop Protection, 181 : e106673. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2024.106673/)

Her R., Crespin L., Etougbétché J., Groud K., Gnolonfoun M., Chapron A., Evenamia C., Houéménou G., Lurier T., Cappelle J., Dobigny G. & Ayral F., 2024. Seroprevalence and renal carriage of pathogenic Leptospira in livestock in Cotonou, Benin. Veterinary Medical and Science, 10, e1430.

Awoniyi A.M., Barreto A.M., Argibay H.D., Santana J.O., Palma F.A.G., Riviere-Cinnamond A., Dobigny G., Bertherat E., Ferguson L., Belmain S. & Costa F., 2024. Systematic surveillance tools to reduce rodent pests in disadvantaged urban areas can empower communities and improve public health. Scientific Reports, 14, e4503. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55203-5)

Badou, S., Missihoun A.A., Agbangla C., Gauthier P., Houéménou G., Dossou H.J., Etougbétché J., Adamjy T., Tchabi A., Faton L., Hima K., Evenamia C., Diagne C., Besnard A., Dalecky A. & Dobigny G., 2023. Maritime international trade and bioinvasions: a three-year long survey of small mammals in Autonomous Port of Cotonou, Benin. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61, 669-686. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14557)

 

Mots-clés : écologie de la santé ; écologie urbaine ; zoonoses ; socio-écosystèmes urbains ; bidonvilles ; rongeurs ; Afrique ; Madagascar

Last publications
Diagne C., Ballesteros-Mejia L., Bodey T., Cuthbert R., Fantle-Lepczyk J., Angulo E., Bang A., Dobigny G. & Courchamp F. 2023. Economic costs of invasive rodents worldwide: the tip of the iceberg. Peer J 11 : e14935. (https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14935)
Dalecky A., Garba M., Danzabarma* A.I., Etougbétché* J., Badou* S., Dossou* H.-J., Sow I., Niang C.T., Diene O., Diallo I., Saghiri M.S.A., Sidatt M.E.H., Van Steenbergen F., Bal A.B., Bosma L., Houéménou G., Atteynine S.A., Hima K., Dobigny G. & Meheretu Y. 2023. Prolifération de rongeurs dans les milieux urbains et agricoles d’Afrique subsaharienne. Le côté obscur des rodenticides chimiques de synthèse. Environnement, Risques & Santé 22 : 205-211. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1684/ers.2023.1731)
Chaigneau A., Ouinsou F.T., Akodogbo H.H., Dobigny G., Avocegan T.T., Dossou-Sognon F.U., Okpeitcha V.O., Djihouessi M.B. & Azémar F. 2023. Physicochemical drivers of zooplankton seasonal variability in a West African lagoon (Nokoué Lagoon, Benin). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 11 : 556. (https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse11030556)
Castel G., Filippone C., Tatard C., Vigan J. & Dobigny G. 2023. Role of seaports and imported rats in Seoul hantavirus circulation, Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases 29 : 20-25. (https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2901.221092)
Etougbetche* J.R., Hamidovic A., Dossou* H.J., Coan-Grosso M., Roques R., Plault N., Houemenou G., Badou* S., Missihoun A.A., Abdou Karim I.Y., Galal L., Diagne C., Darde M.L., Dobigny G. & Mercier A. 2022. Molecular prevalence, genetic characterization and patterns of Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic small mammals from Cotonou, Benin. Parasite 29 : 58. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2022058)
Dossou* H.-J., Le Guyader M., Gauthier P., Badou* S., Etougbetche* J., Houemenou G., Djelouadji Z. & Dobigny G. 2022. Fine-scale prevalence and genetic diversity of urban small mammal-borne pathogenic Leptospira in Africa: A spatiotemporal survey within Cotonou, Benin. Zoonoses Public Health 69 : 643-654. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zph.12953)
Dobigny G. & Morand S. 2022. Zoonotic emergence at the animal-environment-human interface: the forgotten urban socio-ecosystems. Peer Community Journal 2 : e79. (https://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.206)
Ségard A., Romero A., Ravel S., Truc P., Dobigny G., Gauthier P., Etougbetche* J., Dossou* H.-J., Badou* S., Houéménou G., Morand S., Chaisiri K., Noûs C. & de Meeûs T. 2022. Development of nine microsatellite loci for Trypanosoma lewisi, a potential human pathogen in Western Africa and South-East Asia, and preliminary population genetics analyses. Peer Community Journal 2 : e69. (https://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.188)
Angulo E., Diagne C., Ballesteros-Mejia L., Adamjy T., Ahmed D.A., Akulov E., Banerjee A.K., Capinha C., Dia C.A.K.M., Dobigny G., Duboscq-Carra V.G., Golivets M., Haubrock P.J., Heringer G., Kirichenko N., Kourantidou M., Liu C., Nuñez M.A., Renault D., Roiz D., Taheri A., Verbrugge L.N.H., Watari Y., Xiong W. & Courchamp F. 2021. Non-English languages enrich scientific knowledge: The example of economic costs of biological invasions. Science of The Total Environment 775 : e144441. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144441)
Badou* S.A., Gauthier P., Houemenou G., Loiseau A., Doussou* H.-J., Etougbetche* J., Houemenou H., Agbangla C., Brouat C. & Dobigny G. 2021. Population genetic structure of black rats in an urban environment : a case study in Cotonou, Benin. Hystrix : Italian Journal of Mammalogy 2 : 130-136. (https://dx.doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00417-2021)