Publications

Fahrion A.S, Freuling C.M, Léchenne M, Müller T, Recuenco S, Vigilato M.A.N, Busch F, Heitz-Tokpa K, Mauti S, Muturi M, Dürr S. Editorial: Rabies, a long-standing One Health example - progress, challenges, lessons and visions on the way to 0 by 30. Front Vet Sci. 2023;10:1220327. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1220327

Helle C, Léchenne M, Traoré A, Bonfoh B, Crump L, Brattig N.W, Zinsstag J. Rabies control and elimination in West and Central Africa. Acta Trop. 2022;226:106223. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106223

Kallo V, Keita Z, Boka M, Tetchi M, Dagnogo K, Ouattara M, Amalaman D.M, Traore S, Gerber F, Léchenne M, Hattendorf J, Hampson K. Rabies burden in Côte d'Ivoire. Acta Trop. 2022;226:106249. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106249

Madjadinan A, Mbaipago N, Sougou N.M, Diongue M, Zinsstag J, Heitz-Tokpa K, Léchenne M. "When a dog bites someone": community and service provider dynamics influencing access to integrated bite case management in Chad. Front Vet Sci. 2022;9:866106. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.866106

Mbaipago N, Madjadinan A, Amalaman D.M, Andree Ndour P, Zinsstag J, Heitz-Tokpa K, Léchenne M. General insights on obstacles to dog vaccination in Chad on community and institutional level. Front Vet Sci. 2022;9:866755. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.866755

Zinsstag J, Hediger K, Osman Y.M, Abukhattab S, Crump L, Kaiser-Grolimund A, Mauti S, Ahmed A, Hattendorf J, Bonfoh B, Heitz-Tokpa K, Berger-González M, Bucher A, Léchenne M, Tschopp R, Obrist B, Pelikan K. The promotion and development of One Health at Swiss TPH and its greater potential. Diseases. 2022;10(3):65. DOI: 10.3390/diseases10030065

Zinsstag J,Léchenne M,Traoré A,Bonfoh B,Crump L, eds. Towards the elimination of dog rabies in West - and Central Africa: Elsevier, 2022

Hitziger M, Berezowski J, Durr S, Falzon L.C, Léchenne M, Lushasi K, Markosyan T, Mbilo C, Momanyi K.N, Ozcelik R, Prejit N, Zinsstag J, Ruegg S.R. System thinking and citizen participation is still missing in One Health initiatives - lessons from fifteen evaluations. Front Public Health. 2021;9:653398. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.653398

Léchenne M, Miranda M.E, Mauti S, Mbilo C, Zinsstag J. Integrated rabies control. In: Zinsstag J,Schelling E,Waltner-Toews D,Whittaker M,Tanner M, eds. One Health: the theory and practice of integrated health approaches, 234-249. Wallingford: CABI, 2021

Léchenne M, Traoré A, Hattendorf J, Kallo V, Oussiguere A, Tetchi M, Moyengar R, Traoré A.K, Moto D.D, Ngandolo R, Bonfoh B, Zinsstag J. Increasing rabies data availability: the example of a One Health research project in Chad, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali. Acta Trop. 2021;215:105808. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105808

Naïssengar K, Oussiguere A, Madaye E, Mbaipago N, Mindekem R, Moyengar R, Madjadinan A, Ngandolo R, Zinsstag J, Léchenne M. Challenges to improved animal rabies surveillance: experiences from pilot implementation of decentralized diagnostic units in Chad. Acta Trop. 2021;221:105984. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.105984

Priest J.W, Ngandolo B.N.R, Léchenne M, Cleveland C.A, Yabsley M.J, Weiss A.J, Roy S.L, Cama V. Development of a multiplex bead assay for the detection of canine IgG4 antibody responses to Guinea worm. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021;104(1):303-312. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0914

Voupawoe G, Varkpeh R, Kamara V, Sieh S, Traoré A, De Battisti C, Angot A, Loureiro Lflj, Soumare B, Dauphin G, Abebe W, Coetzer A, Scott T, Nel L, Blanton J, Dacheux L, Bonas S, Bourhy H, Gourlaouen M, Leopardi S, De Benedictis P, Léchenne M, Zinsstag J, Mauti S. Rabies control in Liberia: joint efforts towards zero by 30. Acta Trop. 2021;216:105787. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105787

Gerber F, Tetchi M, Kallo V, Léchenne M, Hattendorf J, Bonfoh B, Zinsstag J. Rabies immunoglobulin: brief history and recent experiences in Côte d'Ivoire. Acta Trop. 2020;211:105629. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105629

Kallo V, Sanogo M, Boka M, Dagnogo K, Tetchi M, Traoré S, Léchenne M, Gerber F, Hattendorf J, Zinsstag J, Bonfoh B. Estimation of dog population and dog bite risk factors in departments of San Pedro and Bouake in Côte d'Ivoire. Acta Trop. 2020;206:105447. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105447

Keita Z, Gerber F, Léchenne M, Thiero O, Hattendorf J, Zinsstag J, Traoré A, Traoré A.K. Burden of rabies in Mali. Acta Trop. 2020;210:105389. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105389

Léchenne M, Miranda M.E, Zinsstag J. Lutte intégrée contre la rage. In: Zinsstag J,Schelling E,Waltner-Toews D,Whittaker M,Tanner M, eds. One Health, une seule santé: théorie et pratique des approches intégrées de la santé, 245-261. Versailles: Éditions Quae, 2020. DOI: 10.35690/978-2-7592-3097-6

Madjadinan A, Hattendorf J, Mindekem R, Mbaipago N, Moyengar R, Gerber F, Oussiguere A, Naissengar K, Zinsstag J, Léchenne M. Identification of risk factors for rabies exposure and access to post-exposure prophylaxis in Chad. Acta Trop. 2020;209:105484. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105484

Mauti S, Léchenne M, Naïssengar S, Traoré A, Kallo V, Kouakou C, Couacy-Hymann E, Gourlaouen M, Mbilo C, Pyana P.P, Madaye E, Dicko I, Cozette P, Benedictis P.D, Bourhy H, Zinsstag J, Dacheux L. Field postmortem rabies rapid immunochromatographic diagnostic test for resource-limited settings with further molecular applications. J Vis Exp. 2020;160:e60008. DOI: 10.3791/60008

Mbaipago J, Mindekem R, Oussiguere A, Moyengar R, Naissengar K, Madjadinan S, Zinsstag J, Léchenne M. Rabies knowledge and practices among human and veterinary health workers in Chad. Acta Trop. 2020;202:105180. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105180

Mbaipago N, Mindekem R, Madjiadinan A, Moyengar R, Oussigueré A, Naissengar K, Zinsstag J, Léchenne M. Short communication on the use of a free rabies hotline service in Chad. Acta Trop. 2020;206:105446. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105446

Tetchi M, Coulibaly M, Kallo V, Traoré G.S, Issaka T, Joseph B, Gerber F, Léchenne M, Zinsstag J, Bonfoh B. The Thai Red Cross protocol experience in Côte d'Ivoire. Acta Trop. 2020;212:105710. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105710

Tetchi M.S, Coulibaly M, Kallo V, Traoré G.S, Issaka T, Joseph B.B.V, Gerber F, Saric J, Léchenne M, Zinsstag J, Bonfoh B. Risk factors for rabies in Côte d'Ivoire. Acta Trop. 2020;212:105711. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105711

Traoré A, Keita Z, Léchenne M, Mauti S, Hattendorf J, Zinsstag J. Rabies surveillance-response in Mali in the past 18 years and requirements for the future. Acta Trop. 2020;210:105526. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105526

Trotter C, Abela-Ridder B, Bharti O, Knopf L, Léchenne M, Mindekem R, Zinsstag J, Hampson K. Reply to 'Alternative abridged preventive regimens against rabies for children in high endemic countries'. Vaccine. 2020;38(35):5580-5581. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.06.030

Hampson K, Abela-Ridder B, Bharti O, Knopf L, Léchenne M, Mindekem R, Tarantola A, Zinsstag J, Trotter C. Modelling to inform prophylaxis regimens to prevent human rabies. Vaccine. 2019;37(Suppl 1):A166-A173. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.11.010

Laager M, Léchenne M, Naissengar K, Mindekem R, Oussiguere A, Zinsstag J, Chitnis N. A metapopulation model of dog rabies transmission in N'Djamena, Chad. J Theor Biol. 2019;462:408-417. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.11.027

Léchenne M, Tenzin T, Miranda M.E, Zinsstag J. Rabies in East and Southeast Asia: a mirror of the global situation. In: Utzinger J,Yap P,Bratschi M,Steinmann P, eds. Neglected tropical diseases - East Asia, 105-127. Cham: Springer, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12008-5_6

Mauti S, Léchenne S, Mbilo C, Nel L, Zinsstag J. Rabies. In: Kardjadi M,Diallo A,Lancelot R, eds. Transboundary animal diseases in Sahelian Africa and connected regions, 107-119. Cham: Springer, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25385-1_7

Laager M, Mbilo C, Madaye E.A, Naminou A, Léchenne M, Tschopp A, Naissengar S.K, Smieszek T, Zinsstag J, Chitnis N. The importance of dog population contact network structures in rabies transmission. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018;12(8):e0006680. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006680

Mbilo C, Léchenne M, Mauti S, Chitnis N, Tschopp R, Zinsstag J. Rabies in dogs, livestock and wildlife: a veterinary perspective. Rev Sci Tech. 2018;37(2):331-340

Mindekem R, Léchenne M, Daugla M.D, Zinsstag J, Ouédraogo L.T, Salifou S. Connaissances-attitudes-pratiques des agents de santé humaine et animale sur la rage au Tchad. Santé Publique. 2018;30(3):419-428. DOI: 10.3917/spub.183.0418

Anyiam F, Léchenne M, Mindekem R, Oussigéré A, Naissengar S, Alfaroukh I.O, Mbilo C, Moto D.D, Coleman P.G, Probst-Hensch N, Zinsstag J. Cost-estimate and proposal for a development impact bond for canine rabies elimination by mass vaccination in Chad. Acta Trop. 2017;175:112-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.11.005

Léchenne M. Rabies control in N'Djamena, Chad. Basel: Univ. Basel, 2017. Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science DOI: 10.5451/unibas-006768821

Mbilo C, Léchenne M, Hattendorf J, Madjadinan S, Anyiam F, Zinsstag J. Rabies awareness and dog ownership among rural northern and southern Chadian communities − analysis of a community-based, cross-sectional household survey. Acta Trop. 2017;175:100-111. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.06.003

Mindekem R, Léchenne M.S, Naissengar K.S, Oussiguere A, Kebkiba B, Moto D.D, Alfaroukh I.O, Ouedraogo L.T, Salifou S, Zinsstag J. Cost description and comparative cost efficiency of post-exposure prophylaxis and canine mass vaccination against rabies in N'Djamena, Chad. Front Vet Sci. 2017;4:38. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00038

Mosimann L, Traoré A, Mauti S, Léchenne M, Obrist B, Véron R, Hattendorf J, Zinsstag J. A mixed methods approach to assess animal vaccination programmes: the case of rabies control in Bamako, Mali. Acta Trop. 2017;165:203-215. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.10.007

Zinsstag J, Léchenne M, Laager M, Mindekem R, Naissengar S, Oussiguere A, Bidjeh K, Rives G, Tessier J, Madjaninan S, Ouagal M, Moto D.D, Alfaroukh I.O, Muthiani Y, Traoré A, Hattendorf J, Lepelletier A, Kergoat L, Bourhy H, Dacheux L, Stadler T, Chitnis N. Vaccination of dogs in an African city interrupts rabies transmission and reduces human exposure. Sci Transl Med. 2017;9(421):eaaf6984. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6984

Léchenne M, Naissengar K, Lepelletier A, Alfaroukh I.O, Bourhy H, Zinsstag J, Dacheux L. Validation of a rapid rabies diagnostic tool for field surveillance in developing countries. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(10):e0005010. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005010

Léchenne M, Oussiguere A, Naissengar K, Mindekem R, Mosimann L, Rives G, Hattendorf J, Moto D.D, Alfaroukh I.O, Zinsstag J. Operational performance and analysis of two rabies vaccination campaigns in N'Djamena, Chad. Vaccine. 2016;34(4):571-577. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.033