دورية أكاديمية
Detection of Pathogen Exposure in African Buffalo Using Non-Specific Markers of Inflammation
العنوان: | Detection of Pathogen Exposure in African Buffalo Using Non-Specific Markers of Inflammation |
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المؤلفون: | Caroline K. Glidden, Brianna Beechler, Peter Erik Buss, Bryan Charleston, Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist, Francois Frederick Maree, Timothy Muller, Eva Pérez-Martin, Katherine Anne Scott, Ockert Louis van Schalkwyk, Anna Jolles |
المصدر: | Frontiers in Immunology, Vol 8 (2018) |
بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media S.A. |
سنة النشر: | 2018 |
المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | emerging infectious disease, disease surveillance, wildlife, inflammation, haptoglobin, serum amyloid A, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607 |
الوصف: | Detecting exposure to new or emerging pathogens is a critical challenge to protecting human, domestic animal, and wildlife health. Yet, current techniques to detect infections typically target known pathogens of humans or economically important animals. In the face of the current surge in infectious disease emergence, non-specific disease surveillance tools are urgently needed. Tracking common host immune responses indicative of recent infection may have potential as a non-specific diagnostic approach for disease surveillance. The challenge to immunologists is to identify the most promising markers, which ideally should be highly conserved across pathogens and host species, become upregulated rapidly and consistently in response to pathogen invasion, and remain elevated beyond clearance of infection. This study combined an infection experiment and a longitudinal observational study to evaluate the utility of non-specific markers of inflammation [NSMI; two acute phase proteins (haptoglobin and serum amyloid A), two pro-inflammatory cytokines (IFNγ and TNF-α)] as indicators of pathogen exposure in a wild mammalian species, African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Specifically, in the experimental study, we asked (1) How quickly do buffalo mount NSMI responses upon challenge with an endemic pathogen, foot-and-mouth disease virus; (2) for how long do NSMI remain elevated after viral clearance and; (3) how pronounced is the difference between peak NSMI concentration and baseline NSMI concentration? In the longitudinal study, we asked (4) Are elevated NSMI associated with recent exposure to a suite of bacterial and viral respiratory pathogens in a wild population? Among the four NSMI that we tested, haptoglobin showed the strongest potential as a surveillance marker in African buffalo: concentrations quickly and consistently reached high levels in response to experimental infection, remaining elevated for almost a month. Moreover, elevated haptoglobin was indicative of recent exposure to two respiratory pathogens assessed ... |
نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1664-3224 |
العلاقة: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01944/fullTest; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-3224Test; https://doaj.org/article/37cf29d91bab4099b0d8ca215caf8169Test |
DOI: | 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01944 |
الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01944Test https://doaj.org/article/37cf29d91bab4099b0d8ca215caf8169Test |
رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.735D4AD9 |
قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
تدمد: | 16643224 |
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DOI: | 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01944 |