title: [Settlements, landscapes, and risks of sleeping sickness at the mouth of the Rio Pongo in Guinea-Conakry].
abstract: Seeking to understand how humans, by the settlements they create (among other means), influence the operation of the pathogen system of sleeping sickness, the authors performed a diachronic analysis of the landscape and settlement dynamics by comparing topographic maps from 1957, a satellite image from 2004, and georeferenced censuses from 2009 and 2001. It appears that the extreme mobility of the population between the continent and the islands is the principal cause for the continuation of this disease at the mouth of the Rio Pongo.
authors.affiliation: Centre Muraz, 01 BP 390, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. rouambaj@hotmail.com
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rouamba
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Bruneau
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sory
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kagbadouno
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Coulibaly
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jamonneau
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Solano
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Rayaisse
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Camara
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Courtin
mesh_terms: D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D016701:Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D045483:Rivers; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Guinea; Rio Pongo; landscape; settlement dynamics; sleeping sickness