Advances in studies of disease-navigating webs: Sarcoptes scabiei as a case study

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Luca Rossi²  Xing-Quan Zhu⁴  Ramón C Soriguer⁶  Domnic Mijele⁷  Jorg Heukelbach⁵  Mathieu Sarasa¹  Samer Alasaad³ 

[1] Fédération Nationale des Chasseurs, 13 rue du Général Leclerc, 92136 Issy les Moulineaux, France;Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Leonardo da Vinci 44, I-10095 Grugliasco, Italy;Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (IEU), University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland;State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730046, P R China;Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil;Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio s/n 41092, Sevilla, Spain;Kenya Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 40241-00100, Nairobi, Kenya

关键词: Integrated approach;    Sarcoptes mite;    Navigating-web;    Ecology;    Genetics;    Disease;    Epidemiology;   

Others  :  823266
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-3305-7-16

 received in 2013-10-26, accepted in 2014-01-02,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

The discipline of epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes and effects of health and disease conditions in defined anima populations. It is the key to evidence-based medicine, which is one of the cornerstones of public health. One of the important facets of epidemiology is disease-navigating webs (disease-NW) through which zoonotic and multi-host parasites in general move from one host to another. Epidemiology in this context includes (i) classical epidemiological approaches based on the statistical analysis of disease prevalence and distribution and, more recently, (ii) genetic approaches with approximations of disease-agent population genetics. Both approaches, classical epidemiology and population genetics, are useful for studying disease-NW. However, both have strengths and weaknesses when applied separately, which, unfortunately, is too often current practice. In this paper, we use Sarcoptes scabiei mite epidemiology as a case study to show how important an integrated approach can be in understanding disease-NW and subsequent disease control.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Alasaad et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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