Understanding the transmission of bacterial agents of sapronotic dseases in aquatic ecosystems: a first spatially realistic metacommunity model
Résumé
Pathogens such as bacteria, fungi and viruses are important components of soil and aquatic communities, where they can benefit from decaying and living organic matter, and may opportunistically infect human and animal hosts. One-third of human infectious diseases is constituted by sapronotic disease agents that are natural inhabitants of soil or aquatic ecosystems. They are capable of existing and reproducing in the environment outside of the host for extended periods of time. However, as ecological research on sapronosis is infrequent and epidemiological models are even rarer, very little information is currently available. Their importance is overlooked in medical and veterinary research, as well as the relationships between free environmental forms and those that are pathogenic. Here, using dynamical models in realistic aquatic metacommunity systems, we analyze sapronosis transmission, using the human pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans that is responsible for Buruli ulcer. Our work constitutes the first set of metacommunity models of sapronotic disease transmission, and is highly flexible for adaptation to other types of sapronosis. The importance of sapronotic agents on animal and human disease burden needs better understanding and new models of sapronosis disease ecology to guide the management and prevention of this important group of pathogens.
Mots clés
Food-borne pathogens Food safety Live bird market Poultry Zoonosis
Food-borne pathogens
Food safety
Live bird market
Poultry
Zoonosis
pathogen transmission
saprophytic stage
metapopulation and metacommunity dynamics Sapronotic disease
Mycobacterium ulcerans
river catchment area
metapopulation and metacommunity dynamics
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