Schistosoma transmission: scaling-up competence from hosts to ecosystems.

Autor: Douchet P; IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France., Gourbal B; IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France., Loker ES; Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology (CETI), Parasite Division - Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA., Rey O; IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France. Electronic address: olivier.rey@univ-perp.fr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Trends in parasitology [Trends Parasitol] 2023 Jul; Vol. 39 (7), pp. 563-574. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 27.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.04.001
Abstrakt: In a One-Health context, it is urgent to establish the links between environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and the circulation of pathogens. Here we review and literally draw a general vision of aquatic environmental factors that interface with Schistosoma species, agents of schistosomiasis, and ultimately modulate their transmission at the ecosystem scale. From this synthesis, we introduce the concept of ecosystem competence defined as 'the propensity of an ecosystem to amplify or mitigate an incoming quantity of a given pathogen that can be ultimately transmitted to their definitive hosts'. Ecosystem competence integrates all mechanisms at the ecosystem scale underlying the transmission risk of a given pathogen and offers a promising measure for operationalizing the One-Health concept.
Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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