Host specificity of flea parasites of mammals from the Andean Biogeographic Region.

Autor: Sanchez JP; Centro de Bioinvestigaciones (CeBio), Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia del Noroeste de la Provincia de, Buenos Aires-CITNOBA (CONICET-UNNOBA-UNSAdA), Pergamino, Argentina., Berrizbeitia MFL; PCMA (Programa de Conservación de los Murciélagos de Argentina), and PIDBA (Instituto de Investigaciones de Biodiversidad Argentina), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, UNT, Miguel Lillo, Argentina.; Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo, Argentina.; CCT NOA Sur, CONICET, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina., Ezquiaga MC; Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CONICET, UNLP), La Plata, Argentina.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Medical and veterinary entomology [Med Vet Entomol] 2023 Sep; Vol. 37 (3), pp. 511-522. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 31.
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12649
Abstrakt: Host specificity of fleas affects their biodiversity that plays a major role in determining the potential transmission routes by pathogens through vertebrate hosts, including humans. In the Biogeographic Andean region, numerous systematic and ecological studies have been conducted, revealing a high diversity of flea taxa of mammals and the presence of pathogenic organisms transmitted by fleas; however, the degree of preference with which each flea species associates with a mammal host remains poorly understood in this region. Herein, host specificity in mammal fleas from the Andean region was analysed. We employed the number of host species for each flea species and the index of host specificity S TD *. Following the literature, 144 species and 13 subspecies of fleas (31 genera and 10 families) have been described in the Andean biogeographic region; 76 taxa are endemic to this region. To carry out the analyses of host specificity, we considered 1759 records of fleas collected from 124 species and 59 genera of wild and domestic mammals, mostly rodent species (85.9%). Our results indicate that typical Andean fleas are genus or family host specific (mostly S TD * less than 3.0). More diverse mammal hosts are parasitized by more diverse flea genera and families and these hosts are phylogenetically related. Otherwise, these hosts are associated with different flea lineages, suggesting the interaction of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms (host-switching, ecological adaptations and co-evolutionary alternation). The fields of disease ecology and One Health are considering the host specificity of arthropod vectors as an important point to understand the mechanisms of emergence and re-emergence of diseases. Our results allow us to estimate the risk of diseases involving fleas in the Andean region.
(© 2023 Royal Entomological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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