One health approach to address zoonotic diseases

Aggarwal, Divya; Ramachandran, Anandhi

doi:10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_398_19

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“…Past zoonotic disease outbreaks such as Nipah virus outbreak and the Kyasanur Forest Disease outbreak have also highlighted the dire need for integrative approaches on ground such as OneHealth and intersectoral action for health. 29 Dealing with India’s current health challenges as well as long-term health system preparedness and resilience can only be achieved through prioritisation of intersectoral outcomes and processes at national, regional, state, district and subdistrict levels.…”

Section: Intersectoral Preventive Public Health Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond numbers, coverage and cost: adaptive governance for post-COVID-19 reforms in India

2021

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Beyond numbers, coverage and cost: adaptive governance for post-COVID-19 reforms in India

2021

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“…In order to establish real integration of multidisciplinary and intersectoral organisations to control and prevent zoonoses, it is also critical to monitor the "One Health" technique while retraining students, research centres, research institutions, and international bodies. One Health (OH) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary, holistic, and multisectoral strategy that works at the local, regional, nationwide, and international levels to achieve optimal health outcomes by recognising the interconnection of humans, animals, plants, and their common surroundings (Aggarwal and Ramachandran 2020, Chen et al 2021. Following many zoonotic disease outbreaks, including the animal spillover, cross-species jumping and zoonotic implications of SARS-CoV-2, the one health approach need to be widely adopted and strengthened for surveillance and monitoring of the virus in animals and wildlife species so as to check the possibilities of virus transmission at animalhuman interface and limit zoonotic risks (Dhama et al 2013, Mobasheri 2021, Banerjee et al 2021, Davis et al 2021, Delahay et al 2021, Hedman et al 2021).…”

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Epidemiological profiling of SARS-CoV-2 with focus on one-health approaches in mitigating COVID-19 pandemic

Tamta

Vinodhkumar

Karthikeyan

et al. 2021

Indian J of Anim Sci

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Of the 1,415 human pathogens identified, 175 are responsible for causing emerging diseases, 132 are zoonotic and majority of the diseases are categorized as emerging or re-emerging. Emerging novel Coronavirus (COVID- 19) is one of them, and it is responsible for causing social and economically critical disease in both humans and animals. This review presents the understanding of epidemiological characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic related to host, agent, and the environment with transmission and spread of the disease for better prevention of the COVID-19. The inclination of the viruses to spillover between different species and determining the number of the reservoir of coronaviruses in an entirely new host to create infection is of emerging importance. The understanding of disease patterns will potentiate our expertise to alert how, when, and where the potential epidemic will occur. One health approach involves co-operation from all the sectors, including healthcare (medical and veterinary), environmental, pharmaceutical, educational, research, police, and administration, to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce the public health threat.

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“…Interaction between humans and domestic animals creates a pathway for ectoparasites, such as ticks, leading to the emergence of zoonotic diseases-an issue of increasing concern according to the World Health Organization's One Health concept (1)(2)(3)(4). Among these diseases, tickborne bacterial infections like Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, and rickettsiosis pose significant global health threats (5).…”

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Detection of pathogenic bacteria in ticks from Isiolo and Kwale counties of Kenya using metagenomics

Kimemia,

Musila,

Lang’at

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Ticks are arachnid ectoparasites which rank second only to mosquitoes in the transmission of human diseases including bacteria responsible for anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, spotted fevers, and Lyme disease among other febrile illnesses. Due to paucity of data on bacteria transmitted by ticks in Kenya, this study undertook a bacterial metagenomic-based characterization of ticks collected from Isiolo, a semi-arid pastoralist County in Eastern Kenya, and Kwale, a coastal County with monsoon climate on the southern Kenyan border with Tanzania. A total of 2,918 ticks belonging to 3 genera and 10 species were pooled and screened in this study. Tick identification was confirmed through the sequencing of Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit 1 (COI) gene. Bacterial 16S rRNA gene PCR amplicons obtained from the above samples were sequenced using the MinION (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) platform. The resulting reads were demultiplexed in Porechop, followed by trimming and filtering in Trimmomatic before clustering using Qiime2-VSearch. A SILVA database pretrained naïve Bayes classifier was used to taxonomically classify the Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs). The bacteria of clinical interest detected in pooled tick assays were as follows:Rickettsia spp.59.43% of pools,Coxiella burnetii37.88%,Proteus mirabilis5.08%,Cutibacterium acnes6.08% andCorynebacterium ulcerans2.43%. These bacteria are responsible for spotted fevers, query fever (Q-fever), urinary tract infections, skin and soft tissue infections, eye infections and diphtheria-like infections in humans, respectively.P. mirabilis, C. acnesandC. ulceranswere detected only in Isiolo. Additionally, COI sequences allowed for the identification ofRickettsiaandCoxiellaspecies to strain level in some of the pools. Diversity analysis revealed that the tick genera had high levels of Alpha diversity but the differences between the microbiomes of the three tick genera studied were not significant. The detection ofCutibacterium acnes, commonly associated with human skin flora suggests that the ticks may have contact with humans potentially exposing them to bacterial infections. The findings in this study highlight the need for further investigation into the viability of these bacteria and the competency of ticks to transmit them. Clinicians in these high-risk areas also need to be appraised for them to include Rickettsial diseases and Q-fever as part of their differential diagnosis.

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One health approach to address zoonotic diseases

Cited by 36 publications

References 2 publications

Beyond numbers, coverage and cost: adaptive governance for post-COVID-19 reforms in India

Beyond numbers, coverage and cost: adaptive governance for post-COVID-19 reforms in India

Epidemiological profiling of SARS-CoV-2 with focus on one-health approaches in mitigating COVID-19 pandemic

Detection of pathogenic bacteria in ticks from Isiolo and Kwale counties of Kenya using metagenomics

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