Schistosoma transmission: scaling-up competence from hosts to ecosystems.
Trends Parasitol
; 39(7): 563-574, 2023 07.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37120369
ABSTRACT
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.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Schistosomiasis
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Ecosystem
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Trends Parasitol
Journal subject:
PARASITOLOGIA
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France