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The guinea pig remains a significant source of food and incomes for rural communities in the Andean Region of South America, including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. However, while many publications are available about infectious diseases associated to guinea pigs either as laboratory animal model or pets, this knowledge is scarce for guinea pigs raised as livestock. Guinea pig production remains mainly traditional without specific animal health guidelines or zoonotic surveillance programs compared to cattle, pigs or poultry. The aim of this scoping review is to analyze the available literature related to the potential role of livestock guinea pigs as reservoir for zoonotic transmission. Several reports have already shown the carriage of respiratory and enteric bacterial and parasites, and also other pathogens responsible for zoonotic diseases like toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis or bartonelosis. 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