Davoust B. auteur aut IRD Watier-Grillot S. auteur aut IRD Roqueplo C. auteur aut IRD Raoult D. auteur aut IRD Mediannikov Oleg auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access At the University Hospital Institute Mediterranee Infection (IHU, Marseille, France), for almost thirty years, veterinarians have been carrying out epidemiological investigations, together with doctors, on animals living near human cases of zoonoses, on the one hand, and on the other hand, transverse and longitudinal epidemiological surveillance studies on animals which are reservoirs, vectors or sentinels of potentially zoonotic infections,. This article presents the methods adopted and the results obtained from these studies. They have been the subject of 76 peer-reviewed publications relating to wild animals (37 publications) and/or domestic animals (48 publications). These studies were often carried out in the field with veterinarians from the French army's health service (39 publications). They were at the origin of the detection of some thirty zoonotic pathogens in the laboratories of the IHU (64 publications) and/or other French laboratories (18 publications). Our approach is an original embodiment of the One Health concept. specialized Animal reservoir Zoonoses Epidemiosurveillance One Health FRANCE AFRIQUE 050 080 021 12 100210 [7 ] 2021 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081449 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100210 [F B010081449] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081449 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2021-06/010081449.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2021-06-15 2025-02-24 fdi:010081449 fre