
Theme: EcoHealth
Contact details: e-mail | +33 (0)4 90 97 29 54
Joined our team: April 2014
Research interests and expertise
I study the dynamics of pathogenic agents at the interface of wildlife, livestock and poultry farms, and human populations. I earned my PhD in evolutionary biology in 2012 based on a three-year study on emerging diseases in Mediterranean wetlands in times of global change. I am currently developing a research project on the antibiotic resistant bacteria carried by wildlife. I am also currently studying the dynamics of fasciolosis in the Camargue, as well as trends in avian flu viruses in wetland networks. I also participate in many other projects, including a study on bird ticks, another one on different kinds of cancer in natural ecosystems, and one on monitoring toxoplasmosis.
Current and past projects at the Tour du Valat
Antibiotic resistance in wildlife | Population dynamics of liver flukes in the Camargue |
Study of the links between hydrology and pathogenic agents |
Video
An animation (in French) by my PhD student Émeline Sabourin, on the Great liver fluke cycle.
Publications
Find below the most recent publications of Marion Vittecoq, or see the full list on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal::
- Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria Carriage in Rodents According to Habitat Anthropizationde Marion Vittecoq, Eric Elguero, Lionel Brazier, Nicolas Renaud, Thomas Blanchon, François Roux, François Renaud, Patrick Durand, Frederic Thomas In EcoHealth, Online (May, 2023) En ligne : doi.org[...] It is increasingly suggested that the dynamics of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in the wild are mostly anthropogenically ... read more
- Changes in plastic ingestion by yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) over the breeding seasonde Florence Nono Almeida, Carole Leray, Justine Boutry, Alexandra ter Halle, Marion Vittecoq, Jennifer F. Provencher, Karen D. McCoy In Marine pollution bulletin, 187 (February 2023), 9 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Gulls can be particularly vulnerable to ingesting plastics when using anthropogenic food sources, ... read more
- Mettre en pratique l’approche « Une seule santé »: Au-delà du « comment » se poser la question du « pourquoi »de Marion Vittecoq In Environnement, Risques & Santé, 21(3) (May, 2022), 201-204 En ligne : www.jle.com[...] Putting the “One health” approach into action, not just how but why The reason to put the “One health” approach into practice may seem obvious. However, the different ... read more
- Les aires protégées françaises face aux approches conceptuelles « Une seule santé – Ecohealth »:de Thierry Durand, Olivier Fleury, Marie Heuret, Thierry Mougey, Christian Schwoehrer, Marion Vittecoq In Environnement, Risques & Santé, 21(3) (May, 2022), 227-234 En ligne : www.jle.com[...] One health and Ecohealth in protected areas in France Protected areas (PAs) are intended to preserve the health ... read more
- Multiresistant Enterobacteriaceae in yellow-legged gull chicks in their first weeks of lifede Marion Vittecoq, Lionel Brazier, Eric Elguero, Ignacio G. Bravo, Nicolas Renaud, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Franck Prugnolle, Sylvain Godreuil, Thomas Blanchon, François Roux, et al. In Ecology and Evolution, 12(6) (June, 2022), 10 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Wild animal species living in anthropogenic areas are ... read more
- Patterns of microbial abundance and heterotrophic activity along nitrogen and salinity gradients in coastal wetlandsde Gema L. Batanero, Andy J. Green, Juan A. Amat, Marion Vittecoq, Curtis A. Suttle, Isabel Reche In Aquatic Sciences, 84(2) (March, 2022), 22 En ligne : doi.org[...] Coastal wetlands are valuable aquatic ecosystems with high biological productivity, which provide services such as a ... read more
- On the arrival of fasciolosis in the Americasde Antonio A. Vázquez, Annia Alba, Pilar Alda, Marion Vittecoq, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès In Trends in Parasitology, 38(3) (March, 2022), 195-204 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Fasciola hepatica is a worldwide emerging and re-emerging parasite heavily affecting several regions in South America. Some lymnaeid snail species ... read more
- Réflexion : Mettre en pratique l'approche “une seule santé”, au delà du “comment” se poser la question du “pourquoi”de Marion Vittecoq In H & B, 7 (2021), 50-55 ... read more
- On the need for integrating cancer into the One Health perspectivede Antoine Dujon, Joel S. Brown, Delphine Destoumieux‐Garzón, Marion Vittecoq, Rodrigo Hamede, Aurelie Tasiemski, Justine Boutry, Sophie Tissot, Catherine Alix‐Panabieres, Pascal Pujol, et al. In Evolutionary Applications, 14(11) (November, 2021), 2571-2575 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Recent pandemics have highlighted the urgency to connect disciplines ... read more
- Characterization and diversity of Babesia sp. YLG, a new member of the Peircei group infecting Mediterranean yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis)de Claire Bonsergent, Marion Vittecoq, Carole Leray, Louisiane Burkart, Karen D. McCoy, Laurence Malandrin In Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Online (October, 2021), 101852 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Avian infecting piroplasms are largely under-studied compared to other hemoparasites, and this paucity of information has blurred ... read more