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Update on the intricate tango between tick microbiomes and tick‐borne pathogens
- Source :
- Parasite Immunology, Parasite Immunology, Wiley, 2021, 43 (5), ⟨10.1111/pim.12813⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2021.
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Abstract
- International audience; The recent development of high-throughput NGS technologies, (ie, next-generation sequencing) has highlighted the complexity of tick microbial communities—which include pathogens, symbionts, and commensals—and also their dynamic variability. Symbionts and commensals can confer crucial and diverse benefits to their hosts, playing nutritional roles or affecting fitness, development, nutrition, reproduction, defence against environmental stress and immunity. Nonpathogenic tick bacteria may also play a role in modifying tick-borne pathogen colonization and transmission, as relationships between microorganisms existing together in one environment can be competitive, exclusive, facilitating or absent, with many potential implications for both human and animal health. Consequently, ticks represent a compelling yet challenging system in which to investigate the composition and both the functional and ecological implications of tick bacterial communities, and thus merits greater attention. Ultimately, deciphering the relationships between microorganisms carried by ticks as well as symbiont‑tick interactions will garner invaluable information, which may aid in some future arthropod‑pest and vector-borne pathogen transmission control strategies. This review outlines recent research on tick microbiome composition and dynamics, highlights elements favouring the reciprocal influence of the tick microbiome and tick-borne agents and finally discusses how ticks and tick-borne diseases might potentially be controlled through tick microbiome manipulation in the future.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
commensals
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
030231 tropical medicine
Immunology
Tick
Environmental stress
ticks
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Tick borne
parasitic diseases
Animals
Humans
Microbiome
Symbiosis
symbionts
biology
Animal health
Bacteria
Transmission (medicine)
Microbiota
Fungi
pathogens
interactions
biology.organism_classification
Commensalism
bacterial infections and mycoses
tick microbiomes
030104 developmental biology
[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology
13. Climate action
Evolutionary biology
Tick-Borne Diseases
Parasitology
tick-borne pathogens
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01419838 and 13653024
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Parasite Immunology, Parasite Immunology, Wiley, 2021, 43 (5), ⟨10.1111/pim.12813⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c64b52777a92a6f86dd426c080335a99