Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network

Autor: Cody W. Thompson, M. Alejandra Camacho, Stephen E. Greiman, A. Townsend Peterson, Marcelo Weksler, Manuela Londoño-Gaviria, Bruce Struminger, John M. Bates, Nicté Ordóñez Garza, Carlos Carrion Bonilla, María Laura Martin, Isabel Constable, Eric P. Hoberg, Fernando Torres-Pérez, Enrique P. Lessa, Jocelyn P. Colella, Santiago F. Burneo, Holly L. Lutz, Joseph A. Cook, Camila C. Ribas, Elizabeth Losos, Guillermo D’Elía, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Schuyler W. Liphardt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Epidemiology
Biosecurity
Wildlife
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Global Health
01 natural sciences
Communicable Diseases
Emerging
Community Networks
Medical Conditions
Public health surveillance
Zoonoses
Global health
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public and Occupational Health
Public Health Surveillance
Biology (General)
Biological Specimen Banks
0303 health sciences
Communicable disease
Ecology
Geography
Eukaryota
Biodiversity
Biobank
Infectious Diseases
Public Health
Pathogens
Opinion
Infectious Disease Control
QH301-705.5
Immunology
Animals
Wild
Disaster Planning
Disease Surveillance
010603 evolutionary biology
Microbiology
Zoonotic Pathogens
Risk Assessment
03 medical and health sciences
Virology
Global network
Genetics
Animals
Humans
Molecular Biology
Environmental planning
Pandemics
030304 developmental biology
Animal Pathogens
SARS-CoV-2
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
COVID-19
RC581-607
Biorepository
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Virtual community of practice
Medical Countermeasures
Infectious Disease Surveillance
Communicable Disease Control
Parasitology
Business
Immunologic diseases. Allergy
Zoology
Zdroj: PLoS Pathogens, Vol 17, Iss 6, p e1009583 (2021)
PLoS Pathogens
ISSN: 1553-7374
1553-7366
Popis: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples representative across space, time, and taxonomic diversity. The shortfall, in this case for vertebrates, prevents accurate and rapid identification and monitoring of emerging pathogens and their reservoir host(s) and precludes extended investigation of ecological, evolutionary, and environmental associations that lead to human infection or spillover. Natural history museum biorepositories form the backbone of a critically needed, decentralized, global network for zoonotic pathogen surveillance, yet this infrastructure remains marginally developed, underutilized, underfunded, and disconnected from public health initiatives. Proactive detection and mitigation for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) requires expanded biodiversity infrastructure and training (particularly in biodiverse and lower income countries) and new communication pipelines that connect biorepositories and biomedical communities. To this end, we highlight a novel adaptation of Project ECHO’s virtual community of practice model: Museums and Emerging Pathogens in the Americas (MEPA). MEPA is a virtual network aimed at fostering communication, coordination, and collaborative problem-solving among pathogen researchers, public health officials, and biorepositories in the Americas. MEPA now acts as a model of effective international, interdisciplinary collaboration that can and should be replicated in other biodiversity hotspots. We encourage deposition of wildlife specimens and associated data with public biorepositories, regardless of original collection purpose, and urge biorepositories to embrace new specimen sources, types, and uses to maximize strategic growth and utility for EID research. Taxonomically, geographically, and temporally deep biorepository archives serve as the foundation of a proactive and increasingly predictive approach to zoonotic spillover, risk assessment, and threat mitigation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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