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Nat Commun ; 15(1): 3589, 2024 Apr 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38678025

RESUMO

The black rat (Rattus rattus) is a globally invasive species that has been widely introduced across Africa. Within its invasive range in West Africa, R. rattus may compete with the native rodent Mastomys natalensis, the primary reservoir host of Lassa virus, a zoonotic pathogen that kills thousands annually. Here, we use rodent trapping data from Sierra Leone and Guinea to show that R. rattus presence reduces M. natalensis density within the human dwellings where Lassa virus exposure is most likely to occur. Further, we integrate infection data from M. natalensis to demonstrate that Lassa virus zoonotic spillover risk is lower at sites with R. rattus. While non-native species can have numerous negative effects on ecosystems, our results suggest that R. rattus invasion has the indirect benefit of decreasing zoonotic spillover of an endemic pathogen, with important implications for invasive species control across West Africa.


Assuntos
Reservatórios de Doenças , Espécies Introduzidas , Febre Lassa , Vírus Lassa , Murinae , Zoonoses , Animais , Vírus Lassa/patogenicidade , Vírus Lassa/fisiologia , Febre Lassa/transmissão , Febre Lassa/epidemiologia , Febre Lassa/virologia , Febre Lassa/veterinária , Reservatórios de Doenças/virologia , Humanos , Ratos , Murinae/virologia , Zoonoses/virologia , Zoonoses/transmissão , Zoonoses/epidemiologia , Serra Leoa/epidemiologia , Guiné/epidemiologia , Ecossistema , Doenças dos Roedores/virologia , Doenças dos Roedores/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Roedores/transmissão
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R Soc Open Sci ; 10(3): 221503, 2023 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36968239

RESUMO

The rate at which zoonotic viruses spill over into the human population varies significantly over space and time. Remarkably, we do not yet know how much of this variation is attributable to genetic variation within viral populations. This gap in understanding arises because we lack methods of genetic analysis that can be easily applied to zoonotic viruses, where the number of available viral sequences is often limited, and opportunistic sampling introduces significant population stratification. Here, we explore the feasibility of using patterns of shared ancestry to correct for population stratification, enabling genome-wide association methods to identify genetic substitutions associated with spillover into the human population. Using a combination of phylogenetically structured simulations and Lassa virus sequences collected from humans and rodents in Sierra Leone, we demonstrate that existing methods do not fully correct for stratification, leading to elevated error rates. We also demonstrate, however, that the Type I error rate can be substantially reduced by confining the analysis to a less-stratified region of the phylogeny, even in an already-small dataset. Using this method, we detect two candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with spillover in the Lassa virus polymerase gene and provide generalized recommendations for the collection and analysis of zoonotic viruses.

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Microbiol Resour Announc ; 11(5): e0009522, 2022 May 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35389260

RESUMO

The genome sequences of five strains of a mammarenavirus were assembled from metagenomic data from pygmy mice (Mus minutoides) captured in Sierra Leone. The nearest fully sequenced relatives of this virus, which was named Seli virus, are lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, Lunk virus, and Ryukyu virus.

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Nat Commun ; 11(1): 510, 2020 01 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31980636

RESUMO

Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus aegyptiacus) as a natural reservoir. However, the largest recorded MVD outbreak with the highest case-fatality ratio happened in 2005 in Angola, where direct spillover from bats was not  shown. Here, collaborative studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Njala University, University of California, Davis USAID-PREDICT, and the University of Makeni identify MARV circulating in ERBs in Sierra Leone. PCR, antibody and virus isolation data from 1755 bats of 42 species shows active MARV infection in approximately 2.5% of ERBs. Phylogenetic analysis identifies MARVs that are similar to the Angola strain. These results provide evidence of MARV circulation in West Africa and demonstrate the value of pathogen surveillance to identify previously undetected threats.


Assuntos
Quirópteros/virologia , Marburgvirus/isolamento & purificação , África Ocidental , Animais , Cavernas , Genoma Viral , Geografia , Funções Verossimilhança , Doença do Vírus de Marburg/virologia , Marburgvirus/classificação , Marburgvirus/genética , Filogenia , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Proteínas Virais/metabolismo
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