The neglected navigating web of the incomprehensibly emerging and re-emerging Sarcoptes mite

Alasaad, Samer; Rossi, Luca; Heukelbach, Jörg; Pérez, Jesús M.; Hamarsheh, Omar; Otiende, Moses; Zhu, Xing-Quang

doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2013.04.018

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“…This suggests that roaming/outdoor domestic dogs and wild canines that prey on wild rabbits with scabies may acquire scabies from these hosts and thus scabies is cross-infective between some canine species and rabbit hosts. Similarly, wild chamois with scabies have been shown to infect domestic goats and vice versa and red foxes with scabies can infect domestic dogs [81]. Analysis of nine microsatellite markers suggests that raccoons in Germany may acquire scabies from scabies infected red foxes [82].…”

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A review of Sarcoptes scabiei: past, present and future

2017

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The disease scabies is one of the earliest diseases of humans for which the cause was known. It is caused by the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, that burrows in the epidermis of the skin of humans and many other mammals. This mite was previously known as Acarus scabiei DeGeer, 1778 before the genus Sarcoptes was established (Latreille 1802) and it became S. scabiei. Research during the last 40 years has tremendously increased insight into the mite’s biology, parasite-host interactions, and the mechanisms it uses to evade the host’s defenses. This review highlights some of the major advancements of our knowledge of the mite’s biology, genome, proteome, and immunomodulating abilities all of which provide a basis for control of the disease. Advances toward the development of a diagnostic blood test to detect a scabies infection and a vaccine to protect susceptible populations from becoming infected, or at least limiting the transmission of the disease, are also presented.

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A review of Sarcoptes scabiei: past, present and future

2017

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“…The animal infection by S. scabiei is devastating and causes significant morbidity and mortality in wild and domestic mammals. It affects more than 100 species worldwide including companion, livestock, and wild animals and is considered as an emerging problem in many countries [2, 3]. …”

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In vitro activity of ten essential oils against Sarcoptes scabiei

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Candy

Melloul³

et al. 2016

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BackgroundThe development of alternative approaches in ectoparasite management is currently required. Essential oils have been demonstrated to exhibit fumigant and topical toxicity to a number of arthropods. The aim of the present study was to assess the potential efficacy of ten essential oils against Sarcoptes scabiei.MethodsThe major chemical components of the oils were identified by GC-MS analysis. Contact and fumigation bioassays were performed on Sarcoptes mites collected from experimentally infected pigs. For contact bioassays, essential oils were diluted with paraffin to get concentrations at 10, 5, and even 1% for the most efficient ones. The mites were inspected under a stereomicroscope 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 90, 120, 150, and 180min after contact. For fumigation bioassay, a filter paper was treated with 100 μL of the pure essential oil. The mites were inspected under a stereomicroscope for the first 5min, and then every 5min until 1h.ResultsUsing contact bioassays, 1% clove and palmarosa oil killed all the mites within 20 and 50min, respectively. The oils efficacy order was: clove > palmarosa > geranium > tea tree > lavender > manuka > bitter orange > eucalyptus > Japanese cedar. In fumigation bioassays, the efficacy order was: tea tree > clove > eucalyptus > lavender > palmarosa > geranium > Japanese cedar > bitter orange > manuka. In both bioassays, cade oil showed no activity.ConclusionEssential oils, especially tea tree, clove, palmarosa, and eucalyptus oils, are potential complementary or alternative products to treat S. scabiei infections in humans or animals, as well as to control the mites in the environment.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1889-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…However, the nature of configurative reviews does not necessarily require comprehensiveness, since information saturation when building conceptual models means that at a certain point the addition of further studies would not add information to the conceptual model (Gough et al., 2015). Typically these types of reviews do not set out to synthesise study findings, and so vote-counting only occurred in one review (Alasaad et al., 2013). …”

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On the benefits of systematic reviews for wildlife parasitology

Haddaway

Watson

2016

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are widely accepted as the best means to synthesise quantitative or qualitative scientific evidence. Many scientific fields have embraced these more rigorous review techniques as a means to bring together large and complex bodies of literature and their data. Unfortunately, due to perceived difficulties and unfamiliarity with processes, other fields are not using these options to review their literature. One way to provide guidance for a specific field is to examine critically recent reviews and meta-analyses and to explain the advantages and disadvantages of the various review techniques. In this paper, we examine review papers in the emerging field of wildlife parasitology and compare five different literature review types—configurative narrative review, aggregative scoping review, aggregative literature review, aggregative meta-analysis, and aggregative systematic review. We found that most literature reviews did not adequately explain the methodology used to find the literature under review. We also found that most literature reviews were not comprehensive nor did they critically appraise the literature under review. Such a lack severely reduces the reliability of the reviews. We encourage all authors to consider using systematic reviews in the future, and for authors and peer-reviewers to be aware of the limitations of non-systematic reviews.

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The neglected navigating web of the incomprehensibly emerging and re-emerging Sarcoptes mite

Cited by 51 publications

References 83 publications

A review of Sarcoptes scabiei: past, present and future

A review of Sarcoptes scabiei: past, present and future

In vitro activity of ten essential oils against Sarcoptes scabiei

On the benefits of systematic reviews for wildlife parasitology

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