IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-12-02DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100050
Henry Kyobe Bosa , Winters Muttamba , Barnabas Bakamutumaho , Edson Rwagasore , John Runumu , Mudarshiru Bbuye , Wilber Sabiiti , Abdul Nyanzi , Jacqueline Weyer , Joel Francis , Ntuli A. Kapologwe , Patrick Katoto , Bruce Kirenga , Misaki Wayengera
{"title":"High prevalence and non-suppression of HIV/AIDS in the East and Central African region heightens risk of severe outcomes for Clade I monkeypox virus infection, and may be a driver for subsequent adaptation","authors":"Henry Kyobe Bosa , Winters Muttamba , Barnabas Bakamutumaho , Edson Rwagasore , John Runumu , Mudarshiru Bbuye , Wilber Sabiiti , Abdul Nyanzi , Jacqueline Weyer , Joel Francis , Ntuli A. Kapologwe , Patrick Katoto , Bruce Kirenga , Misaki Wayengera","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In September 2023, a re-emergence of mpox was noted in the province of South Kivu, in DR Congo. So far, active transmission has been reported in 23 of the 26 provinces. Despite localisation within DRC, there are emerging concerns about possibility of cross-border transmission. In this perspective, we highlight the threat posed to HIV positive patients, particularly those with unsuppressed viral loads. We make several prepositions as part of the preparedness and response plans in the countries in the East and Central Africa region. The six prepositions include: 1) operationalize the Joint Africa Task Force for mpox consistent with Kinshasa declaration on mpox, 2) increased surveillance, 3) deployment of point of care diagnostics, 4) targeted reactive vaccination and enhanced antiretroviral therapy of HIV positive patients in areas of active transmission, 5) community engagement, 6) foster capacity building of national rapid response teams in East and Central Africa in mpox care and management through collaboration with DRC counterparts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100050"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143105318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100049
Mohamed M. Sirdar, Jarod Hanson, Julia Maxwell, Ghassan M. Matar, Tin Tin Myaing, Alison Holmes
{"title":"Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): ISID’s global efforts to bring light to the silent pandemic","authors":"Mohamed M. Sirdar, Jarod Hanson, Julia Maxwell, Ghassan M. Matar, Tin Tin Myaing, Alison Holmes","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100048
Emmanuel Edwar Siddig , Ayman Ahmed
{"title":"The urgent need for developing and implementing a multisectoral One Health strategy for the surveillance, prevention, and control of eumycetoma","authors":"Emmanuel Edwar Siddig , Ayman Ahmed","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The complex and large diversity of pathogens involved in the development of eumycetoma, including more than 60 fungal species, presents a significant challenge for global health. Eumycetoma agents infect a wide range of hosts, including humans, animals, plants, and agricultural and food products, with persisting presence in the environment worldwide. Therefore, the disease has been devastating human, animal, and environmental health, as well as socio-cultural and economic status, food security, and safety. Recently, a substantial increase in the incidence rates, diversity of hosts, and geographical distribution has been reported worldwide; this change is enhanced by several factors, including climate change, globalization, inadequate living conditions, and low hygiene and sanitation practices. In this review, we summarize the diversity and prevalence of the main agents of eumycetoma among humans, animals, plants, agricultural products, and the environment. We have also summarized persisting challenges in the early detection and diagnosis, surveillance, prevention, treatment, and control of eumycetoma. This will inform policymaking, strategic planning, and resources mobilization and guide the implementation of cost-effective interventions. The interconnectedness of eumycetoma across different host-species calls for the implementation of a multisectoral One Health strategy for the surveillance, prevention, and control of eumycetoma. We recommend improving the reporting and immediate sharing of related public health data to raise awareness among the general population, health care providers, and public health leaders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100048"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100047
Roy Gordon Bengis
{"title":"One Health in the African wilds: A veterinary tale","authors":"Roy Gordon Bengis","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The “One Health” concept brings together and balances the relationship between the health of people, animals, and ecosystems. It follows the understanding that changes in any of these may increase the risk of new diseases emerging or old diseases re-emerging and spreading among people and animals. The huge biodiversity of animals, invertebrates, vegetation and soil types present in African free-ranging wildlife conservation areas lends itself to a multitude of interactions between various vertebrate species and invertebrate vectors, pathogens, and the environment. In wildlife, these infections generally occur in an endemically stable state where infection is common but rarely progresses to disease.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100047"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100044
Angel N. Desai, Ashley Otter, Marion Koopmans, Guido Granata, Martin P. Grobusch, Varol Tunali, Roberta Astorri, Pikka Jokelainen, Gilbert Greub, Önder Ergönül, Sofia R. Valdoleiros, Chantal P. Rovers, Antonino Di Caro, Raffaella Pisapia, Francesco Maria Fusco, Ana Pereira do Vale, Karen A. Krogfelt, Eskild Petersen, Barry Atkinson
{"title":"Oropouche virus: A re-emerging arbovirus of clinical significance","authors":"Angel N. Desai, Ashley Otter, Marion Koopmans, Guido Granata, Martin P. Grobusch, Varol Tunali, Roberta Astorri, Pikka Jokelainen, Gilbert Greub, Önder Ergönül, Sofia R. Valdoleiros, Chantal P. Rovers, Antonino Di Caro, Raffaella Pisapia, Francesco Maria Fusco, Ana Pereira do Vale, Karen A. Krogfelt, Eskild Petersen, Barry Atkinson","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100044"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142526689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100045
Naseem Salahuddin, Lucille Blumberg, Bernadette Abela, David N. Durrheim
{"title":"GAVI investment should accelerate Rabies “Zero by 30” aspiration","authors":"Naseem Salahuddin, Lucille Blumberg, Bernadette Abela, David N. Durrheim","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100045"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges, progress, and lessons learned in achieving dog-mediated human rabies elimination by 2030 in Asia","authors":"Waqas Ahmad, Sumon Ghosh, Satoshi Inoue, Alessandra Scagliarini","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100046"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100040
Christopher Sander, Stephan Neumann
{"title":"Development of a lateral-flow assay for rapid detection of parasitic nematodes","authors":"Christopher Sander, Stephan Neumann","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>Wild animals kept in enclosures are exposed to an increased risk of infection with Soil-transmitted Helminth (STH) due to high animal densities and the resulting heavy contamination of the enclosures. As regular fecal examinations are necessary to monitor and maintain health, a rapid test was developed to detect STH in wildlife.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>The rapid test consists of two polyclonal antibodies directed against the nematode SUMO-Protein (C- & N-term). For this study, 102 fecal samples from wild boar, fallow deer, red deer and dogs were examined. The fecal samples were defined by using the sedimentation technique and then used to evaluate the developed rapid test.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The sensitivity of the rapid test was 95.38 % with a specificity of 81.08 % and a accuracy of 90.2 %.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>At this time, there is no commercial rapid test for the detection of STH. This rapid test can enable fast disease monitoring to make a decision in the field to save animals health. In addition, this rapid tests for the detection of parasites in wildlife can be crucial in the context of One Health to prevent the spread of disease within a system through monitoring, to preserve biodiversity and to improve global health security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100040"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949915124000246/pdfft?md5=94e48de3557b6b5be7bca4d21fd46c2d&pid=1-s2.0-S2949915124000246-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100039
Jenny Olofsson , Conny Tolf , Richard Lindqvist , Yong-Dae Gwon , Sebastian Blom , Mariëlle L. van Toor , Jonas Näslund , Anders Lindström , Tobias Lilja , Patrick Chiyo , Anna K. Överby , Jonas Waldenström , Olivia Wesula Lwande
{"title":"Evidence of exposure to West Nile virus and Usutu virus in migratory birds in Sweden","authors":"Jenny Olofsson , Conny Tolf , Richard Lindqvist , Yong-Dae Gwon , Sebastian Blom , Mariëlle L. van Toor , Jonas Näslund , Anders Lindström , Tobias Lilja , Patrick Chiyo , Anna K. Överby , Jonas Waldenström , Olivia Wesula Lwande","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>The recent detection and expansion of West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) in the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria point to the likelihood of the viruses spreading to Northern Europe. Migratory birds and ornithophilic mosquitoes may spread these viruses to new areas. We sampled birds during the spring and autumn bird migration of 2021 in Southern Sweden to investigate the risk of the introduction of mosquito-borne zoonotic avian viruses like WNV and USUV.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We collected blood samples from 1775 birds comprising 59 species and determined the seroprevalence of WNV using a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). WNV and USUV belong to the Japanese encephalitis serocomplex, and antibodies against both viruses are detected in the WNV ELISA. Focus-forming assays or fluorescence-based neutralization assays were performed to verify ELISA results and to differentiate between antibodies against WNV and USUV.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We found nine (0.51%) samples to be WNV-antibody-positive. Cross-neutralization experiments with WNV and USUV confirmed that seven (0.41%) had WNV-neutralizing antibodies and two (0.11%) had USUV-neutralizing antibodies. Interestingly, the two samples had neutralizing antibodies of both viruses. All samples but one with anti-flavivirus antibodies came from long-distance migrants wintering in sub-Saharan Africa. Antibodies were detected in samples taken during spring and autumn and only in adult birds.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The findings show that migratory birds in Sweden have been exposed to WNV and USUV.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100039"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IJID One HealthPub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100038
Fedelino F. Malbas Jr. , Mariko Saito-Obata , Yusuke Sayama , Nelia P. Salazar , Wilfredo E. Aure , Hazel O. Galang , Cecille L. Zuasula , Hitoshi Oshitani
{"title":"Japanese encephalitis in swine in San Jose, Tarlac, Philippines","authors":"Fedelino F. Malbas Jr. , Mariko Saito-Obata , Yusuke Sayama , Nelia P. Salazar , Wilfredo E. Aure , Hazel O. Galang , Cecille L. Zuasula , Hitoshi Oshitani","doi":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijidoh.2024.100038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>A systematic review of multidisciplinary studies on Japanese encephalitis (JE) in the Philippines indicated that endemic foci may be found in all 17 administrative regions in the country.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>To establish the etiology of the disease, virus detection and seroprevalence surveys in 198 pigs were conducted in 2010–2011 in four barangays (villages) in the Municipality of San Jose, Tarlac. Prior to the present study, JE virus genotype III (JEV GIII) was recovered from the mosquito, <em>Culex tritaeniorhynchus,</em> in the same municipality where backyard hog-raising and wet rice cultivation were common practices among households located within 1 km radius from the paddies.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>JEV GIII was detected from serum and nasal swabs from pigs, 3 to 5-month-old, from barangays Pao, Moriones, and Villa Aglipay. Immunoglobulin (Ig) M and IgG were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in pigs < 4 to > 8 months old, with an overall total of 17.2 % and 62.1 %, respectively. The presence of these antibodies in all pigs during four observation periods indicated year-round transmission starting with the rainy season, which encompasses the months of July and September 2010. IgM represented new infections. IgG increased correspondingly with age with repeated infections in older pigs. IgG levels remained high in all barangays. The number of households with any one of the markers: IgM, IgG, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction averaged out at 82.5 %, reflecting as it were, vulnerability to JE in barangays where all 198 pigs were examined. This report contributes to knowledge on JE, whereby incidence in humans may be linked to its epizootic spillover from pigs.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The study has shown that four barangays, representing a rice-farming community, supported the enzootic cycle of JE in swine, with mosquitoes previously found to be infected with JEV GIII in San Jose. Thus, infected pigs, rainfall, and proximity of human habitation to breeding sites of vector mosquitoes constituted the risk factors for JE, as it were in other endemic countries in Asia. The finding of viral RNA in nasal swabs suggests the possibility of direct transmission among pigs via the oronasal route. From the standpoint of public health, JE immunization of children and periodic surveillance of swine are recommended.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100655,"journal":{"name":"IJID One Health","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949915124000222/pdfft?md5=ea8f4628dbe272d0f7ec3179e1879a69&pid=1-s2.0-S2949915124000222-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}