Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology
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Yn: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Cyfrol 372, Rhif 1719, 20160088, 13.03.2017.
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T1 - Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology
AU - Cable, Joanne
AU - Barber, Iain
AU - Boag, Brian
AU - Ellison, Amy R.
AU - Morgan, Eric R.
AU - Murray, Kris
AU - Pascoe, Emily L.
AU - Sait, Steven M.
AU - Wilson, Anthony J.
AU - Booth, Mark
PY - 2017/3/13
Y1 - 2017/3/13
N2 - Parasitic infections are ubiquitous in wildlife, livestock and human populations, and healthy ecosystems are often parasite rich. Yet, their negative impacts can be extreme. Understanding how both anticipated and cryptic changes in a system might affect parasite transmission at an individual, local and global level is critical for sustainable control in humans and livestock. Here we highlight and synthesize evidence regarding potential effects of ‘system changes’ (both climatic and anthropogenic) on parasite transmission from wild host–parasite systems. Such information could inform more efficient and sustainable parasite control programmes in domestic animals or humans. Many examples from diverse terrestrial and aquatic natural systems show how abiotic and biotic factors affected by system changes can interact additively, multiplicatively or antagonistically to influence parasite transmission, including through altered habitat structure, biodiversity, host demographics and evolution. Despite this, few studies of managed systems explicitly consider these higher-order interactions, or the subsequent effects of parasite evolution, which can conceal or exaggerate measured impacts of control actions. We call for a more integrated approach to investigating transmission dynamics, which recognizes these complexities and makes use of new technologies for data capture and monitoring, and to support robust predictions of altered parasite dynamics in a rapidly changing world.
AB - Parasitic infections are ubiquitous in wildlife, livestock and human populations, and healthy ecosystems are often parasite rich. Yet, their negative impacts can be extreme. Understanding how both anticipated and cryptic changes in a system might affect parasite transmission at an individual, local and global level is critical for sustainable control in humans and livestock. Here we highlight and synthesize evidence regarding potential effects of ‘system changes’ (both climatic and anthropogenic) on parasite transmission from wild host–parasite systems. Such information could inform more efficient and sustainable parasite control programmes in domestic animals or humans. Many examples from diverse terrestrial and aquatic natural systems show how abiotic and biotic factors affected by system changes can interact additively, multiplicatively or antagonistically to influence parasite transmission, including through altered habitat structure, biodiversity, host demographics and evolution. Despite this, few studies of managed systems explicitly consider these higher-order interactions, or the subsequent effects of parasite evolution, which can conceal or exaggerate measured impacts of control actions. We call for a more integrated approach to investigating transmission dynamics, which recognizes these complexities and makes use of new technologies for data capture and monitoring, and to support robust predictions of altered parasite dynamics in a rapidly changing world.
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.2016.0088
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2016.0088
M3 - Article
VL - 372
JO - Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
SN - 0962-8436
IS - 1719
M1 - 20160088
ER -