Veglia, A. J.; Beavers, K.; Van Buren, E. W.; Meiling, S. S.; Muller, E. M.; Smith, T. B.; Holstein, D. M.; Apprill, A.; Brandt, M. E.; Mydlarz, L. D.; et al(
, Microbiology Resource Announcements)
Matthijnssens, Jelle
(Ed.)
ABSTRACT Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is decimating Caribbean corals. Here, through the metatranscriptomic assembly and annotation of two alphaflexivirus-like strains, we provide genomic evidence of filamentous viruses in SCTLD-affected, -exposed, and -unexposed coral colonies. These data will assist in clarifying the roles of viruses in SCTLD.
Receveur, Joseph P; Bauer, Alexandra; Pechal, Jennifer L; Picq, Sophie; Dogbe, Magdalene; Jordan, Heather R; Rakestraw, Alex W; Fast, Kayla; Sandel, Michael; Chevillon, Christine; et al(
, FEMS Microbiology Reviews)
ABSTRACT Understanding the interactions of ecosystems, humans and pathogens is important for disease risk estimation. This is particularly true for neglected and newly emerging diseases where modes and efficiencies of transmission leading to epidemics are not well understood. Using a model for other emerging diseases, the neglected tropical skin disease Buruli ulcer (BU), we systematically review the literature on transmission of the etiologic agent, Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU), within a One Health/EcoHealth framework and against Hill's nine criteria and Koch's postulates for making strong inference in disease systems. Using this strong inference approach, we advocate a null hypothesis for MU transmission and other understudied disease systems. The null should be tested against alternative vector or host roles in pathogen transmission to better inform disease management. We propose a re-evaluation of what is necessary to identify and confirm hosts, reservoirs and vectors associated with environmental pathogen replication, dispersal and transmission; critically review alternative environmental sources of MU that may be important for transmission, including invertebrate and vertebrate species, plants and biofilms on aquatic substrates; and conclude with placing BU within the context of other neglected and emerging infectious diseases with intricate ecological relationships that lead to disease in humans, wildlife and domestic animals.
Michalska-Smith, Matthew; Enns, Eva A.; White, Lauren A.; Gilbertson, Marie L.; Craft, Meggan E.(
, Royal Society Open Science)
Close contacts between individuals provide opportunities for the transmission of diseases, including COVID-19. While individuals take part in many different types of interactions, including those with classmates, co-workers and household members, it is the conglomeration of all of these interactions that produces the complex social contact network interconnecting individuals across the population. Thus, while an individual might decide their own risk tolerance in response to a threat of infection, the consequences of such decisions are rarely so confined, propagating far beyond any one person. We assess the effect of different population-level risk-tolerance regimes, population structure in the form of age and household-size distributions, and different interaction types on epidemic spread in plausible human contact networks to gain insight into how contact network structure affects pathogen spread through a population. In particular, we find that behavioural changes by vulnerable individuals in isolation are insufficient to reduce those individuals’ infection risk and that population structure can have varied and counteracting effects on epidemic outcomes. The relative impact of each interaction type was contingent on assumptions underlying contact network construction, stressing the importance of empirical validation. Taken together, these results promote a nuanced understanding of disease spread on contact networks, with implications for public health strategies.
Aoki, Lillian R., Rappazzo, Brendan, Beatty, Deanna S., Domke, Lia K., Eckert, Ginny L., Eisenlord, Morgan E., Graham, Olivia J., Harper, Leah, Hawthorne, Timothy L., Hessing‐Lewis, Margot, Hovel, Kevin A., Monteith, Zachary L., Mueller, Ryan S., Olson, Angeleen M., Prentice, Carolyn, Stachowicz, John J., Tomas, Fiona, Yang, Bo, Duffy, J. Emmett, Gomes, Carla, and Harvell, C. Drew. Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links eelgrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes. Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10355904. Limnology and Oceanography 67.7 Web. doi:10.1002/lno.12152.
Aoki, Lillian R., Rappazzo, Brendan, Beatty, Deanna S., Domke, Lia K., Eckert, Ginny L., Eisenlord, Morgan E., Graham, Olivia J., Harper, Leah, Hawthorne, Timothy L., Hessing‐Lewis, Margot, Hovel, Kevin A., Monteith, Zachary L., Mueller, Ryan S., Olson, Angeleen M., Prentice, Carolyn, Stachowicz, John J., Tomas, Fiona, Yang, Bo, Duffy, J. Emmett, Gomes, Carla, & Harvell, C. Drew. Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links eelgrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes. Limnology and Oceanography, 67 (7). Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10355904. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12152
Aoki, Lillian R., Rappazzo, Brendan, Beatty, Deanna S., Domke, Lia K., Eckert, Ginny L., Eisenlord, Morgan E., Graham, Olivia J., Harper, Leah, Hawthorne, Timothy L., Hessing‐Lewis, Margot, Hovel, Kevin A., Monteith, Zachary L., Mueller, Ryan S., Olson, Angeleen M., Prentice, Carolyn, Stachowicz, John J., Tomas, Fiona, Yang, Bo, Duffy, J. Emmett, Gomes, Carla, and Harvell, C. Drew.
"Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links eelgrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes". Limnology and Oceanography 67 (7). Country unknown/Code not available. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12152.https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10355904.
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title = {Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links eelgrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes},
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DOI = {10.1002/lno.12152},
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journal = {Limnology and Oceanography},
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author = {Aoki, Lillian R. and Rappazzo, Brendan and Beatty, Deanna S. and Domke, Lia K. and Eckert, Ginny L. and Eisenlord, Morgan E. and Graham, Olivia J. and Harper, Leah and Hawthorne, Timothy L. and Hessing‐Lewis, Margot and Hovel, Kevin A. and Monteith, Zachary L. and Mueller, Ryan S. and Olson, Angeleen M. and Prentice, Carolyn and Stachowicz, John J. and Tomas, Fiona and Yang, Bo and Duffy, J. Emmett and Gomes, Carla and Harvell, C. Drew},
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