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Pimenoff VN, Gray P, Louvanto K, Eriksson T, Lagheden C, Söderlund-Strand A, Dillner J, Lehtinen M. Ecological diversity profiles of non-vaccine-targeted HPVs after gender-based community vaccination efforts. Cell Host Microbe 2023; 31:1921-1929.e3. [PMID: 37944494 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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The long-term effect of population-level human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on the viral ecology of the untargeted HPVs is poorly understood. We performed an 8-year follow-up of 33 communities randomized to gender-neutral HPV16/18 vaccination, girls-only HPV16/18 vaccination, and control communities without HPV vaccination. The 1992/93 and 1994 birth cohorts were invited in school years 2007/8 and 2008/9. Follow-up cervico-vaginal sampling at 18 and 22 years of age, 4 and 8 years post-vaccination, respectively, were attended by 11,396 and 5,602 participants. HPV types 6/11/16/18/31/33/35/39/45/51/52/56/58/59/66/68 were genotyped and used for the community-level ecological diversity estimations. Gender-neutral vaccination communities with a stronger herd immunity than girls-only vaccination communities show a significantly increased HPV α-diversity (p = 1.1 × 10-8) from 4 to 8 years post-vaccination, despite the clearance of the vaccine-targeted HPVs in these communities. This likely sign of niche occupation by the non-vaccine-targeted HPVs will potentially affect the future cervical cancer screening programs but should not interfere with the WHO mission to eliminate cervical cancer.
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- Ville N Pimenoff
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology - CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Biobank Borealis, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Unit of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology - CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology - CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology - CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology - CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Biobank Borealis, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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McLeod DV, Gandon S. Effects of epistasis and recombination between vaccine-escape and virulence alleles on the dynamics of pathogen adaptation. Nat Ecol Evol 2022; 6:786-793. [PMID: 35437006 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01709-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Pathogen adaptation to public health interventions such as vaccination may take tortuous routes and involve multiple mutations at different locations in the pathogen genome, acting on distinct phenotypic traits. Yet how these multi-locus adaptations jointly evolve is poorly understood. Here we consider the joint evolution of two adaptations: pathogen escape from the vaccine-induced immune response and adjustments to pathogen virulence affecting transmission or clearance. We elucidate the role played by epistasis and recombination, with an emphasis on the different protective effects of vaccination. We show that vaccines blocking infection, reducing transmission and/or increasing clearance generate positive epistasis between the vaccine-escape and virulence alleles, favouring strains that carry both mutations, whereas vaccines reducing virulence mortality generate negative epistasis, favouring strains that carry either mutation but not both. High rates of recombination can affect these predictions. If epistasis is positive, frequent recombination can prevent the transient build-up of more virulent escape strains. If epistasis is negative, frequent recombination between loci can create an evolutionary bistability, favouring whichever adaptation is more accessible. Our work provides a timely alternative to the variant-centred perspective on pathogen adaptation and captures the effect of different types of vaccine on the interference between multiple adaptive mutations.
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- David V McLeod
- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France. .,Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland. .,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
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Bull JJ, Antia R. Which 'imperfect vaccines' encourage the evolution of higher virulence? Evol Med Public Health 2022; 10:202-213. [PMID: 35539897 PMCID: PMC9081871 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoac015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background and objectives Theory suggests that some types of vaccines against infectious pathogens may lead to the evolution of variants that cause increased harm, particularly when they infect unvaccinated individuals. This theory was supported by the observation that the use of an imperfect vaccine to control Marek's disease virus in chickens resulted in the virus evolving to be more lethal to unvaccinated birds. This raises the concern that the use of some other vaccines may lead to similar pernicious outcomes. We examine that theory with a focus on considering the regimes in which such outcomes are expected. Methodology We evaluate the plausibility of assumptions in the original theory. The previous theory rested heavily on a particular form of transmission-mortality-recovery trade-off and invoked other assumptions about the pathways of evolution. We review alternatives to mortality in limiting transmission and consider evolutionary pathways that were omitted in the original theory. Results The regime where the pernicious evolutionary outcome occurs is narrowed by our analysis but remains possible in various scenarios. We propose a more nuanced consideration of alternative models for the within-host dynamics of infections and for factors that limit virulence. Our analysis suggests imperfect vaccines against many pathogens will not lead to the evolution of pathogens with increased virulence in unvaccinated individuals. Conclusions and implications Evolution of greater pathogen mortality driven by vaccination remains difficult to predict, but the scope for such outcomes appears limited. Incorporation of mechanistic details into the framework, especially regarding immunity, may be requisite for prediction accuracy. Lay Summary A virus of chickens appears to have evolved high mortality in response to a vaccine that merely prevented disease symptoms. Theory has predicted this type of evolution in response to a variety of vaccines and other interventions such as drug treatment. Under what circumstances is this pernicious result likely to occur? Analysis of the theory in light of recent changes in our understanding of viral biology raises doubts that medicine-driven, pernicious evolution is likely to be common. But we are far from a mechanistic understanding of the interaction between pathogen and host that can predict when vaccines and other medical interventions will lead to the unwanted evolution of more virulent pathogens. So, while the regime where a pernicious result obtains may be limited, caution remains warranted in designing many types of interventions.
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- James J Bull
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA. E-mail:
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- Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Miller IF, Metcalf CJE. Assessing the risk of vaccine-driven virulence evolution in SARS-CoV-2. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2022; 9:211021. [PMID: 35070341 PMCID: PMC8728167 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 virulence, or lethality, threatens to exacerbate the burden of COVID-19 on society. How might COVID-19 vaccines alter selection for increased SARS-CoV-2 virulence? Framing current evidence surrounding SARS-CoV-2 biology and COVID-19 vaccines in the context of evolutionary theory indicates that prospects for virulence evolution remain uncertain. However, differential effects of vaccinal immunity on transmission and disease severity between respiratory compartments could select for increased virulence. To bound expectations for this outcome, we analyse an evo-epidemiological model. Synthesizing model predictions with vaccine efficacy data, we conclude that while vaccine-driven virulence remains a theoretical possibility, the risk is low if vaccines provide sustained robust protection against infection. Furthermore, we found that any increases in transmission concomitant with increases in virulence would be unlikely to threaten prospects for herd immunity in a highly immunized population. Given that virulence evolution would nevertheless impact unvaccinated individuals and populations with low vaccination rates, it is important to achieve high vaccination rates worldwide and ensure that vaccinal immunity provides robust protection against both infection and disease, potentially through the use of booster doses.
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- Ian F. Miller
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Harnessing the Genetic Plasticity of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 to Target Suicidal Replication. Viruses 2021; 13:v13091676. [PMID: 34578257 PMCID: PMC8473201 DOI: 10.3390/v13091676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), the causative agent of a wasting disease in weanling piglets, has periodically evolved into several new subtypes since its discovery, indicating that the efficacy of current vaccines can be improved. Although a DNA virus, the mutation rates of PCV2 resemble RNA viruses. The hypothesis that recoding of selected serine and leucine codons in the PCV2b capsid gene could result in stop codons due to mutations occurring during viral replication and thus result in rapid attenuation was tested. Vaccination of weanling pigs with the suicidal vaccine constructs elicited strong virus-neutralizing antibody responses. Vaccination prevented lesions, body-weight loss, and viral replication on challenge with a heterologous PCV2d strain. The suicidal PCV2 vaccine construct was not detectable in the sera of vaccinated pigs at 14 days post-vaccination, indicating that the attenuated vaccine was very safe. Exposure of the modified virus to immune selection pressure with sub-neutralizing levels of antibodies resulted in 5 of the 22 target codons mutating to a stop signal. Thus, the described approach for the rapid attenuation of PCV2 was both effective and safe. It can be readily adapted to newly emerging viruses with high mutation rates to meet the current need for improved platforms for rapid-response vaccines.
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Walter A, Lion S. Epidemiological and evolutionary consequences of periodicity in treatment coverage. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20203007. [PMID: 33715439 PMCID: PMC7944112 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Host heterogeneity is a key driver of host-pathogen dynamics. In particular, the use of treatments against infectious diseases creates variation in quality among hosts, which can have both epidemiological and evolutionary consequences. We present a general theoretical model to highlight the consequences of different imperfect treatments on pathogen prevalence and evolution. These treatments differ in their action on host and pathogen traits. In contrast with previous studies, we assume that treatment coverage can vary in time, as in seasonal or pulsed treatment strategies. We show that periodic treatment strategies can limit both disease spread and virulence evolution, depending on the type of treatment. We also introduce a new method to analytically calculate the selection gradient in periodic environments, which allows our predictions to be interpreted using the concept of reproductive value, and can be applied more generally to analyse eco-evolutionary dynamics in class-structured populations and fluctuating environments.
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- Alicia Walter
- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. 1919, route de Mende, Montpellier, France
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- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. 1919, route de Mende, Montpellier, France
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Pooley CM, Marion G, Bishop SC, Bailey RI, Doeschl-Wilson AB. Estimating individuals' genetic and non-genetic effects underlying infectious disease transmission from temporal epidemic data. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1008447. [PMID: 33347459 PMCID: PMC7785229 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Individuals differ widely in their contribution to the spread of infection within and across populations. Three key epidemiological host traits affect infectious disease spread: susceptibility (propensity to acquire infection), infectivity (propensity to transmit infection to others) and recoverability (propensity to recover quickly). Interventions aiming to reduce disease spread may target improvement in any one of these traits, but the necessary statistical methods for obtaining risk estimates are lacking. In this paper we introduce a novel software tool called SIRE (standing for "Susceptibility, Infectivity and Recoverability Estimation"), which allows for the first time simultaneous estimation of the genetic effect of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), as well as non-genetic influences on these three unobservable host traits. SIRE implements a flexible Bayesian algorithm which accommodates a wide range of disease surveillance data comprising any combination of recorded individual infection and/or recovery times, or disease diagnostic test results. Different genetic and non-genetic regulations and data scenarios (representing realistic recording schemes) were simulated to validate SIRE and to assess their impact on the precision, accuracy and bias of parameter estimates. This analysis revealed that with few exceptions, SIRE provides unbiased, accurate parameter estimates associated with all three host traits. For most scenarios, SNP effects associated with recoverability can be estimated with highest precision, followed by susceptibility. For infectivity, many epidemics with few individuals give substantially more statistical power to identify SNP effects than the reverse. Importantly, precise estimates of SNP and other effects could be obtained even in the case of incomplete, censored and relatively infrequent measurements of individuals' infection or survival status, albeit requiring more individuals to yield equivalent precision. SIRE represents a new tool for analysing a wide range of experimental and field disease data with the aim of discovering and validating SNPs and other factors controlling infectious disease transmission.
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- Christopher M. Pooley
- The Roslin Institute, Midlothian, United Kingdom
- Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- The Roslin Institute, Midlothian, United Kingdom
- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Lodz, Poland
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Gray P, Kann H, Pimenoff VN, Adhikari I, Eriksson T, Surcel HM, Vänskä S, Dillner J, Faust H, Lehtinen M. Long-term follow-up of human papillomavirus type replacement among young pregnant Finnish females before and after a community-randomised HPV vaccination trial with moderate coverage. Int J Cancer 2020; 147:3511-3522. [PMID: 32574384 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.33169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Large scale human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination against the most oncogenic high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16/18 is rapidly reducing their incidence. However, attempts at assessing if this leads to an increase of nonvaccine targeted HPV types have been hampered by several limitations, such as the inability to differentiate secular trends. We performed a population-based serological survey of unvaccinated young women over 12 years. The women were under 23-years-old, residents from 33 communities which participated in a community-randomised trial (CRT) with approximately 50% vaccination coverage. Serum samples were retrieved pre-CRT and post-CRT implementation. Seropositivity to 17 HPV types was assessed. HPV seroprevalence ratios (PR) comparing the postvaccination to prevaccination era were estimated by trial arm. This was also assessed among the sexual risk-taking core group, where type replacement may occur more rapidly. In total, 8022 serum samples from the population-based Finnish Maternity Cohort were retrieved. HPV types 16/18 showed decreased seroprevalence among the unvaccinated in communities only after gender-neutral vaccination (PR16/18A = 0.8, 95% CI 0.7-0.9). HPV6/11 and HPV73 were decreased after gender-neutral vaccination (PR6/11A = 0.8, 95% CI 0.7-0.9, PR73A = 0.7, 95% CI 0.6-0.9, respectively) and girls-only vaccination (PR6/11B = 0.8, 95% CI 0.7-0.9, PR73B = 0.9, 95% CI 0.8-1.0). HPV68 alone was increased but only after girls-only vaccination (PR68B = 1.3, 95% CI 1.0-1.7, PRcore68B = 2.8, 95% CI 1.2-6.3). A large-scale, long-term follow-up found no type replacement in the communities with the strongest reduction of vaccine HPV types. Limited evidence for an increase in HPV68 was restricted to girls-only vaccinated communities and may have been due to secular trends (ClinicalTrials.gov number: NCT00534638).
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- Penelope Gray
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Finnish Cancer Centre-Mid Finland (FICAN-Mid), Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Research and Development, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- European Science Infrastructure Services, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Infectious Disease Control and Vaccination, Inst. for Health & Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Finnish Cancer Centre-Mid Finland (FICAN-Mid), Tampere, Finland
- Department of Infectious Disease Control and Vaccination, Inst. for Health & Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Infections and Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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Decaro N, Lorusso A. Novel human coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): A lesson from animal coronaviruses. Vet Microbiol 2020; 244:108693. [PMID: 32402329 PMCID: PMC7195271 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2020.108693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The recent pandemic caused by the novel human coronavirus, referrred to as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), not only is having a great impact on the health care systems and economies in all continents but it is also causing radical changes of common habits and life styles. The novel coronavirus (CoV) recognises, with high probability, a zoonotic origin but the role of animals in the SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology is still largely unknown. However, CoVs have been known in animals since several decades, so that veterinary coronavirologists have a great expertise on how to face CoV infections in animals, which could represent a model for SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans. In the present paper, we provide an up-to-date review of the literature currently available on animal CoVs, focusing on the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the emergence of novel CoV strains with different antigenic, biologic and/or pathogenetic features. A full comprehension of the mechanisms driving the evolution of animal CoVs will help better understand the emergence, spreading, and evolution of SARS-CoV-2.
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- Nicola Decaro
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy.
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise 'G. Caporale', Teramo, Italy
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Man I, Vänskä S, Lehtinen M, Bogaards JA. Human Papillomavirus Genotype Replacement: Still Too Early to Tell? J Infect Dis 2020; 224:481-491. [PMID: 31985011 PMCID: PMC8328199 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Background Although human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly efficacious in protecting against HPV infections and related diseases, vaccination may trigger replacement by nontargeted genotypes if these compete with the vaccine-targeted types. HPV genotype replacement has been deemed unlikely, based on the lack of systematic increases in the prevalence of nonvaccine-type (NVT) infection in the first decade after vaccination, and on the presence of cross-protection for some NVTs. Methods To investigate whether type replacement can be inferred from early postvaccination surveillance, we constructed a transmission model in which a vaccine type and an NVT compete through infection-induced cross-immunity. We simulated scenarios of different levels of cross-immunity and vaccine-induced cross-protection to the NVT. We validated whether commonly used measures correctly indicate type replacement in the long run. Results Type replacement is a trade-off between cross-immunity and cross-protection; cross-immunity leads to type replacement unless cross-protection is strong enough. With weak cross-protection, NVT prevalence may initially decrease before rebounding into type replacement, exhibiting a honeymoon period. Importantly, vaccine effectiveness for NVTs is inadequate for indicating type replacement. Conclusions Although postvaccination surveillance thus far is reassuring, it is still too early to preclude type replacement. Monitoring of NVTs remains pivotal in gauging population-level impacts of HPV vaccination.
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- Irene Man
- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands.,Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Infectious Disease Control and Vaccinations, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.,School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.,Division of Infections and Cancer Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands.,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Host exposure history modulates the within-host advantage of virulence in a songbird-bacterium system. Sci Rep 2019; 9:20348. [PMID: 31889059 PMCID: PMC6937340 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56540-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The host immune response can exert strong selective pressure on pathogen virulence, particularly when host protection against reinfection is incomplete. Since emerging in house finch populations, the bacterial pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) has been increasing in virulence. Repeated exposure to low-doses of MG, a proxy for what birds likely experience while foraging, provides significant but incomplete protection against reinfection. Here we sought to determine if the within-host, pathogen load advantage of high virulence is mediated by the degree of prior pathogen exposure, and thus the extent of immune memory. We created variation in host immunity by experimentally inoculating wild-caught, MG-naïve house finches with varying doses and number of exposures of a single pathogen strain of intermediate virulence. Following recovery from priming exposures, individuals were challenged with one of three MG strains of distinct virulence. We found that the quantitative pathogen load advantage of high virulence was strongly mediated by the degree of prior exposure. The greatest within-host load advantage of virulence was seen in hosts given low-dose priming exposures, akin to what many house finches likely experience while foraging. Our results show that incomplete host immunity produced by low-level prior exposure can create a within-host environment that favors more virulent pathogens.
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The continual emergence of new pathogens and the increased spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations remind us that microbes are living entities that evolve at rates that impact public health interventions. Following the historical thread of the works of Pasteur and Darwin shows how reconciling clinical microbiology, ecology, and evolution can be instrumental to understanding pathology, developing new therapies, and prolonging the efficiency of existing ones.
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- Samuel Alizon
- Laboratoire MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, UR IRD 224, UM), Montpellier, France
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Alizon S, Murall CL, Bravo IG. Why Human Papillomavirus Acute Infections Matter. Viruses 2017; 9:v9100293. [PMID: 28994707 PMCID: PMC5691644 DOI: 10.3390/v9100293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2017] [Revised: 09/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Most infections by human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are `acute', that is non-persistent. Yet, for HPVs, as for many other oncoviruses, there is a striking gap between our detailed understanding of chronic infections and our limited data on the early stages of infection. Here we argue that studying HPV acute infections is necessary and timely. Focusing on early interactions will help explain why certain infections are cleared while others become chronic or latent. From a molecular perspective, descriptions of immune effectors and pro-inflammatory pathways during the initial stages of infections have the potential to lead to novel treatments or to improved handling algorithms. From a dynamical perspective, adopting concepts from spatial ecology, such as meta-populations or meta-communities, can help explain why HPV acute infections sometimes last for years. Furthermore, cervical cancer screening and vaccines impose novel iatrogenic pressures on HPVs, implying that anticipating any viral evolutionary response remains essential. Finally, hints at the associations between HPV acute infections and fertility deserve further investigation given their high, worldwide prevalence. Overall, understanding asymptomatic and benign infections may be instrumental in reducing HPV virulence.
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- Samuel Alizon
- MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, UR IRD 224, UM), 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France.
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- MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, UR IRD 224, UM), 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France.
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- MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, UR IRD 224, UM), 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France.
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Diard M, Hardt WD. Evolution of bacterial virulence. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2017; 41:679-697. [DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Smith DRM, Mideo N. Modelling the evolution of HIV-1 virulence in response to imperfect therapy and prophylaxis. Evol Appl 2017; 10:297-309. [PMID: 28250813 PMCID: PMC5322411 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Average HIV-1 virulence appears to have evolved in different directions in different host populations since antiretroviral therapy first became available, and models predict that HIV drugs can select for either higher or lower virulence, depending on how treatment is administered. However, HIV virulence evolution in response to "leaky" therapy (treatment that imperfectly suppresses viral replication) and the use of preventive drugs (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has not been explored. Using adaptive dynamics, we show that higher virulence can evolve when antiretroviral therapy is imperfectly effective and that this evolution erodes some of the long-term clinical and epidemiological benefits of HIV treatment. The introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis greatly reduces infection prevalence, but can further amplify virulence evolution when it, too, is leaky. Increasing the uptake rate of these imperfect interventions increases selection for higher virulence and can lead to counterintuitive increases in infection prevalence in some scenarios. Although populations almost always fare better with access to interventions than without, untreated individuals could experience particularly poor clinical outcomes when virulence evolves. These findings predict that antiretroviral drugs may have underappreciated evolutionary consequences, but that maximizing drug efficacy can prevent this evolutionary response. We suggest that HIV virulence evolution should be closely monitored as access to interventions continues to improve.
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- David R. M. Smith
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
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Kennedy DA, Kurath G, Brito IL, Purcell MK, Read AF, Winton JR, Wargo AR. Potential drivers of virulence evolution in aquaculture. Evol Appl 2016; 9:344-54. [PMID: 26834829 PMCID: PMC4721074 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Infectious diseases are economically detrimental to aquaculture, and with continued expansion and intensification of aquaculture, the importance of managing infectious diseases will likely increase in the future. Here, we use evolution of virulence theory, along with examples, to identify aquaculture practices that might lead to the evolution of increased pathogen virulence. We identify eight practices common in aquaculture that theory predicts may favor evolution toward higher pathogen virulence. Four are related to intensive aquaculture operations, and four others are related specifically to infectious disease control. Our intention is to make aquaculture managers aware of these risks, such that with increased vigilance, they might be able to detect and prevent the emergence and spread of increasingly troublesome pathogen strains in the future.
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- David A Kennedy
- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics Departments of Biology and Entomology The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA; Fogarty International Center National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center Seattle WA USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center Seattle WA USA
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- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics Departments of Biology and Entomology The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA; Fogarty International Center National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center Seattle WA USA
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- Virginia Institute of Marine Science College of William and Mary Gloucester Point VA USA
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Gjini E, Valente C, Sá-Leão R, Gomes MGM. How direct competition shapes coexistence and vaccine effects in multi-strain pathogen systems. J Theor Biol 2015; 388:50-60. [PMID: 26471070 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.09.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2015] [Revised: 09/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We describe an integrated modeling framework for understanding strain coexistence in polymorphic pathogen systems. Previous studies have debated the utility of neutral formulations and focused on cross-immunity between strains as a major stabilizing mechanism. Here we convey that direct competition for colonization mediates stable coexistence only when competitive abilities amongst pathogen clones satisfy certain pairwise asymmetries. We illustrate our ideas with nested SIS models of single and dual colonization, applied to polymorphic pneumococcal bacteria. By fitting the models to cross-sectional prevalence data from Portugal (before and after the introduction of a seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine), we are able to not only statistically compare neutral and non-neutral epidemiological formulations, but also estimate vaccine efficacy, transmission and competition parameters simultaneously. Our study highlights that the response of polymorphic pathogen populations to interventions holds crucial information about strain interactions, which can be extracted by suitable nested modeling.
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- Erida Gjini
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Apartado 14, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade de Porto, Portugal; Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Why is it that some parasites cause high levels of host damage (i.e. virulence) whereas others are relatively benign? There are now numerous reviews of virulence evolution in the literature but it is nevertheless still difficult to find a comprehensive treatment of the theory and data on the subject that is easily accessible to non-specialists. Here we attempt to do so by distilling the vast theoretical literature on the topic into a set of relatively few robust predictions. We then provide a comprehensive assessment of the available empirical literature that tests these predictions. Our results show that there have been some notable successes in integrating theory and data but also that theory and empiricism in this field do not ‘speak’ to each other very well. We offer a few suggestions for how the connection between the two might be improved.
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Murall CL, Bauch CT, Day T. Could the human papillomavirus vaccines drive virulence evolution? Proc Biol Sci 2015; 282:20141069. [PMID: 25429011 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines hold great promise for preventing several cancers caused by HPV infections. Yet little attention has been given to whether HPV could respond evolutionarily to the new selection pressures imposed on it by the novel immunity response created by the vaccine. Here, we present and theoretically validate a mechanism by which the vaccine alters the transmission-recovery trade-off that constrains HPV's virulence such that higher oncogene expression is favoured. With a high oncogene expression strategy, the virus is able to increase its viral load and infected cell population before clearance by the vaccine, thus improving its chances of transmission. This new rapid cell-proliferation strategy is able to circulate between hosts with medium to high turnover rates of sexual partners. We also discuss the importance of better quantifying the duration of challenge infections and the degree to which a vaccinated host can shed virus. The generality of the models presented here suggests a wider applicability of this mechanism, and thus highlights the need to investigate viral oncogenicity from an evolutionary perspective.
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- Carmen Lía Murall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Zurita-Gutiérrez YH, Lion S. Spatial structure, host heterogeneity and parasite virulence: implications for vaccine-driven evolution. Ecol Lett 2015; 18:779-789. [PMID: 26052783 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2015] [Revised: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Natural host-parasite interactions exhibit considerable variation in host quality, with profound consequences for disease ecology and evolution. For instance, treatments (such as vaccination) may select for more transmissible or virulent strains. Previous theory has addressed the ecological and evolutionary impact of host heterogeneity under the assumption that hosts and parasites disperse globally. Here, we investigate the joint effects of host heterogeneity and local dispersal on the evolution of parasite life-history traits. We first formalise a general theoretical framework combining variation in host quality and spatial structure. We then apply this model to the specific problem of parasite evolution following vaccination. We show that, depending on the type of vaccine, spatial structure may select for higher or lower virulence compared to the predictions of non-spatial theory. We discuss the implications of our results for disease management, and their broader fundamental relevance for other causes of host heterogeneity in nature.
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- Yazmín Hananí Zurita-Gutiérrez
- Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE. 1919, route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE. 1919, route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Lee SW, Hartley CA, Coppo MJC, Vaz PK, Legione AR, Quinteros JA, Noormohammadi AH, Markham PF, Browning GF, Devlin JM. Growth kinetics and transmission potential of existing and emerging field strains of infectious laryngotracheitis virus. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120282. [PMID: 25785629 PMCID: PMC4365042 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Attenuated live infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) vaccines are widely used in the poultry industry to control outbreaks of disease. Natural recombination between commercial ILTV vaccines has resulted in virulent recombinant viruses that cause severe disease, and that have now emerged as the dominant field strains in important poultry producing regions in Australia. Genotype analysis using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism has shown one recombinant virus (class 9) has largely replaced the previously dominant class 2 field strain. To examine potential reasons for this displacement we compared the growth kinetics and transmission potential of class 2 and class 9 viruses. The class 9 ILTV grew to higher titres in cell culture and embryonated eggs, but no differences were observed in entry kinetics or egress into the allantoic fluid from the chorioallantoic membrane. In vivo studies showed that birds inoculated with class 9 ILTV had more severe tracheal pathology and greater weight loss than those inoculated with the class 2 virus. Consistent with the predominance of class 9 field strains, birds inoculated with 10(2) or 10(3) plaque forming units of class 9 ILTV consistently transmitted virus to in-contact birds, whereas this could only be seen in birds inoculated with 10(4) PFU of the class 2 virus. Taken together, the improved growth kinetics and transmission potential of the class 9 virus is consistent with improved fitness of the recombinant virus over the previously dominant field strain.
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- Sang-Won Lee
- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, 3030, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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Antivirulence drugs are a new type of therapeutic drug that target virulence factors, potentially revitalising the drug-development pipeline with new targets. As antivirulence drugs disarm the pathogen, rather than kill or halt pathogen growth, it has been hypothesized that they will generate much weaker selection for resistance than traditional antibiotics. However, recent studies have shown that mechanisms of resistance to antivirulence drugs exist, seemingly damaging the 'evolution-proof' claim. In this Opinion article, we highlight a crucial distinction between whether resistance can emerge and whether it will spread to a high frequency under drug selection. We argue that selection for resistance can be reduced, or even reversed, using appropriate combinations of target and treatment environment, opening a path towards the development of evolutionarily robust novel therapeutics.
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Hartfield M, Alizon S. Epidemiological feedbacks affect evolutionary emergence of pathogens. Am Nat 2014; 183:E105-17. [PMID: 24642501 DOI: 10.1086/674795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The evolutionary emergence of new pathogens via mutation poses a considerable risk to human and animal populations. Most previous studies have investigated cases where a potentially pandemic strain emerges though mutation from an initial maladapted strain (i.e., its basic reproductive ratio R0 < 1). However, an alternative (and arguably more likely) cause of novel pathogen emergence is where a "weakly adapted" strain (with R0 ≈ 1) mutates into a strongly adapted strain (with R0 ≫ 1). In this case, a proportion of the host susceptible population is removed as the first strain spreads, but the impact this feedback has on emergence of mutated strains has yet to be quantified. We produce a model of pathogen emergence that takes into account changes in the susceptible population over time and find that the ongoing depletion of susceptible individuals by the first strain has a drastic effect on the emergence probability of the mutated strain, above that assumed by just scaling the reproductive ratio. Finally, we apply our model to the documented emergence of Chikungunya virus on La Réunion Island and demonstrate that the emergence probability of the mutated strain was reduced approximately 10-fold, compared to models assuming that susceptible depletion would not affect outbreak probability. These results highlight the importance of taking population feedbacks into account when predicting disease emergence.
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- Matthew Hartfield
- Laboratoire Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS 5290, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement [IRD] 224, Universities of Montpellier 1 and 2), 911 Avenue Agropolis, B.P. 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Vale PF, Fenton A, Brown SP. Limiting damage during infection: lessons from infection tolerance for novel therapeutics. PLoS Biol 2014; 12:e1001769. [PMID: 24465177 PMCID: PMC3897360 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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In the field of infectious disease control, novel therapies are focusing on reducing illness caused by pathogens rather than on reducing the pathogen burden itself. Here, Vale and colleagues highlight some potential consequences of such therapeutics for pathogen spread and evolution.
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- Pedro F. Vale
- Centre for Immunity, Infection, and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Immunity, Infection, and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Murall CL, McCann KS, Bauch CT. Revising ecological assumptions about Human papillomavirus interactions and type replacement. J Theor Biol 2014; 350:98-109. [PMID: 24412334 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2013] [Revised: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The controversy over whether vaccine-targeted HPV types will be replaced by other oncogenic, non-vaccine-targeted types remains unresolved. This is in part because little is known about the ecology of HPV types. Patient data has been interpreted to suggest independence or facilitative interactions between types and therefore replacement is believed to be unlikely. With a novel mathematical model, we investigated which HPV type interactions and their immune responses gave qualitatively similar patterns frequently observed in patients. To assess the possibility of type replacement, vaccination was added to see if non-vaccine-targeted types increased their 'niche'. Our model predicts that independence and facilitation are not necessary for the coexistence of types inside hosts, especially given the patchy nature of HPV infection. In fact, independence and facilitation inadequately represented co-infected patients. We found that some form of competition is likely in natural co-infections. Hence, non-vaccine-targeted types that are not cross-reactive with the vaccine could spread to more patches and can increase their viral load in vaccinated hosts. The degree to which this happens will depend on replication and patch colonization rates. Our results suggest that independence between types could be a fallacy, and so without conclusively untangling HPV within-host ecology, type replacement remains theoretically viable. More ecological thinking is needed in future studies.
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- Carmen Lía Murall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada.
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
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Ben-Ami F, Routtu J. The expression and evolution of virulence in multiple infections: the role of specificity, relative virulence and relative dose. BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:97. [PMID: 23641899 PMCID: PMC3659053 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2012] [Accepted: 04/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Background Multiple infections of the same host by different strains of the same microparasite species are believed to play a crucial role during the evolution of parasite virulence. We investigated the role of specificity, relative virulence and relative dose in determining the competitive outcome of multiple infections in the Daphnia magna-Pasteuria ramosa host-parasite system. Results We found that infections by P. ramosa clones (single genotype) were less virulent and produced more spores than infections by P. ramosa isolates (possibly containing multiple genotypes). We also found that two similarly virulent isolates of P. ramosa differed considerably in their within-host competitiveness and their effects on host offspring production when faced with coinfecting P. ramosa isolates and clones. Although the relative virulence of a P. ramosa isolate/clone appears to be a good indicator of its competitiveness during multiple infections, the relative dose may alter the competitive outcome. Moreover, spore counts on day 20 post-infection indicate that the competitive outcome is largely decided early in the parasite’s growth phase, possibly mediated by direct interference or apparent competition. Conclusions Our results emphasize the importance of epidemiology as well as of various parasite traits in determining the outcome of within-host competition. Incorporating realistic epidemiological and ecological conditions when testing theoretical models of multiple infections, as well as using a wider range of host and parasite genotypes, will enable us to better understand the course of virulence evolution.
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- Frida Ben-Ami
- Department of Zoology, George S, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
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The evolutionary consequences of alternative types of imperfect vaccines. J Math Biol 2013; 68:969-87. [PMID: 23455568 DOI: 10.1007/s00285-013-0654-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2012] [Revised: 01/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The emergence and spread of mutant pathogens that evade the effects of prophylactic interventions, including vaccines, threatens our ability to control infectious diseases globally. Imperfect vaccines (e.g. those used against influenza), while not providing life-long immunity, confer protection by reducing a range of pathogen life-history characteristics; conversely, mutant pathogens can gain an advantage by restoring the same range of traits in vaccinated hosts. Using an SEIR model motivated by equine influenza, we investigate the evolutionary consequences of alternative types of imperfect vaccination, by comparing the spread rate of three types of mutant pathogens, in response to three types of vaccines. All mutant types spread faster in response to a transmission-blocking vaccine, relative to vaccines that reduce the proportion of exposed vaccinated individuals becoming infectious, and to vaccines that reduce the length of the infectious period; this difference increases with increasing vaccine efficacy. We interpret our results using the first published Price equation formulation for an SEIR model, and find that our main result is explained by the effects of vaccines on the equilibrium host distribution across epidemiological classes. In particular, the proportion of vaccinated infectious individuals among all exposed and infectious hosts, which is relatively higher in the transmission-blocking vaccine scenario, is important in explaining the faster spread of mutant strains in response to that vaccine. Our work illustrates the connection between epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics, and the need to incorporate both in order to explain and interpret findings of complicated infectious disease dynamics.
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Sorci G, Cornet S, Faivre B. Immunity and the emergence of virulent pathogens. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2013; 16:441-6. [PMID: 23333337 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.12.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2012] [Revised: 12/24/2012] [Accepted: 12/27/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The emergence/re-emergence of infectious diseases has been one of the major concerns for human and wildlife health. In spite of the medical and veterinary progresses as to prevent and cure infectious diseases, during the last decades we have witnessed the emergence/re-emergence of virulent pathogens that pose a threat to humans and wildlife. Many factors that might drive the emergence of these novel pathogens have been identified and several reviews have been published on this topic in the last years. Among the most cited and recognized drivers of pathogen emergence are climate change, habitat destruction, increased contact with reservoirs, etc. These factors mostly refer to environmental determinants of emergence. However, the immune system of the host is probably the most important environmental trait parasites have to cope with. Here, we wish to discuss how immune-mediated selection might affect the emergence/re-emergence of infectious diseases and drive the evolution of disease severity. Vaccination, natural (age-associated) and acquired immunodeficiencies, organ transplantation, environmental contamination with chemicals that disrupt immune functions form populations of hosts that might exert specific immune-mediated selection on a range of pathogens, shaping their virulence and evolution, and favoring their spread to other populations of hosts.
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- Gabriele Sorci
- Biogéosciences, UMR CNRS 6282, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
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Hochberg ME, Thomas F, Assenat E, Hibner U. Preventive evolutionary medicine of cancers. Evol Appl 2012; 6:134-43. [PMID: 23396860 PMCID: PMC3567478 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 10/30/2012] [Accepted: 10/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Evolutionary theory predicts that once an individual reaches an age of sufficiently low Darwinian fitness, (s)he will have reduced chances of keeping cancerous lesions in check. While we clearly need to better understand the emergence of precursor states and early malignancies as well as their mitigation by the microenvironment and tissue architecture, we argue that lifestyle changes and preventive therapies based in an evolutionary framework, applied to identified high-risk populations before incipient neoplasms become clinically detectable and chemoresistant lineages emerge, are currently the most reliable way to control or eliminate early tumours. Specifically, the relatively low levels of (epi)genetic heterogeneity characteristic of many if not most incipient lesions will mean a relatively limited set of possible adaptive traits and associated costs compared to more advanced cancers, and thus a more complete and predictable understanding of treatment options and outcomes. We propose a conceptual model for preventive treatments and discuss the many associated challenges.
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- Michael E Hochberg
- ISEM, UMR5554 CNRS/UM2/IRD, Université Montpellier 2 Montpellier, France ; The Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe, NM, USA ; CREEC, Université Montpellier 2 Montpellier, France
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Atkins KE, Read AF, Savill NJ, Renz KG, Islam AFMF, Walkden-Brown SW, Woolhouse MEJ. Vaccination and reduced cohort duration can drive virulence evolution: Marek's disease virus and industrialized agriculture. Evolution 2012; 67:851-60. [PMID: 23461333 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01803.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Marek's disease virus (MDV), a commercially important disease of poultry, has become substantially more virulent over the last 60 years. This evolution was presumably a consequence of changes in virus ecology associated with the intensification of the poultry industry. Here, we assess whether vaccination or reduced host life span could have generated natural selection, which favored more virulent strains. Using previously published experimental data, we estimated viral fitness under a range of cohort durations and vaccine treatments on broiler farms. We found that viral fitness maximized at intermediate virulence, as a result of a trade-off between virulence and transmission previously reported. Our results suggest that vaccination, acting on this trade-off, could have led to the evolution of increased virulence. By keeping the host alive, vaccination prolongs infectious periods of virulent strains. Improvements in host genetics and nutrition, which reduced broiler life spans below 50 days, could have also increased the virulence of the circulating MDV strains because shortened cohort duration reduces the impact of host death on viral fitness. These results illustrate the dramatic impact anthropogenic change can potentially have on pathogen virulence.
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- Katherine E Atkins
- Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom.
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The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. PLoS Biol 2012; 10:e1001368. [PMID: 22870063 PMCID: PMC3409122 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 06/19/2012] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A candidate malaria vaccine promoted the evolution of more virulent malaria parasites in mice. Malaria vaccine developers are concerned that antigenic escape will erode vaccine efficacy. Evolutionary theorists have raised the possibility that some types of vaccine could also create conditions favoring the evolution of more virulent pathogens. Such evolution would put unvaccinated people at greater risk of severe disease. Here we test the impact of vaccination with a single highly purified antigen on the malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi evolving in laboratory mice. The antigen we used, AMA-1, is a component of several candidate malaria vaccines currently in various stages of trials in humans. We first found that a more virulent clone was less readily controlled by AMA-1-induced immunity than its less virulent progenitor. Replicated parasites were then serially passaged through control or AMA-1 vaccinated mice and evaluated after 10 and 21 rounds of selection. We found no evidence of evolution at the ama-1 locus. Instead, virulence evolved; AMA-1-selected parasites induced greater anemia in naïve mice than both control and ancestral parasites. Our data suggest that recombinant blood stage malaria vaccines can drive the evolution of more virulent malaria parasites. Vaccination can drive the evolution of pathogens. Most obviously, molecules targeted by vaccine-induced immunity can change. Such evolution makes vaccines less effective. A different possibility is that more virulent pathogens are favored in vaccinated hosts. In that case, vaccination would create pathogens that cause more harm to unvaccinated individuals. To test this idea, we studied a rodent malaria parasite in laboratory mice immunized with a component of malaria vaccines currently in human trials. We found that a more virulent parasite clone was less well controlled by vaccine-induced immunity than was its less virulent ancestor. We then passaged parasites through sham- or vaccinated mice to study how the parasites might evolve after multiple rounds of infection of mouse hosts. The parasite molecule targeted by the vaccine did not change during this process. Instead, the parasites became more virulent if they evolved in vaccinated hosts. Our data suggest that some vaccines can drive the evolution of more virulent parasites.
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Jackwood MW, Hall D, Handel A. Molecular evolution and emergence of avian gammacoronaviruses. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2012; 12:1305-11. [PMID: 22609285 PMCID: PMC7106068 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2012] [Revised: 05/08/2012] [Accepted: 05/09/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Coronaviruses, which are single stranded, positive sense RNA viruses, are responsible for a wide variety of existing and emerging diseases in humans and other animals. The gammacoronaviruses primarily infect avian hosts. Within this genus of coronaviruses, the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes a highly infectious upper-respiratory tract disease in commercial poultry. IBV shows rapid evolution in chickens, frequently producing new antigenic types, which adds to the multiple serotypes of the virus that do not cross protect. Rapid evolution in IBV is facilitated by strong selection, large population sizes and high genetic diversity within hosts, and transmission bottlenecks between hosts. Genetic diversity within a host arises primarily by mutation, which includes substitutions, insertions and deletions. Mutations are caused both by the high error rate, and limited proof reading capability, of the viral RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase, and by recombination. Recombination also generates new haplotype diversity by recombining existing variants. Rapid evolution of avian coronavirus IBV makes this virus extremely difficult to diagnose and control, but also makes it an excellent model system to study viral genetic diversity and the mechanisms behind the emergence of coronaviruses in their natural host.
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- Mark W Jackwood
- Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States.
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References. Parasitology 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/9781119968986.refs] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Little TJ, Allen JE, Babayan SA, Matthews KR, Colegrave N. Harnessing evolutionary biology to combat infectious disease. Nat Med 2012; 18:217-20. [PMID: 22310693 PMCID: PMC3712261 DOI: 10.1038/nm.2572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Pathogens exhibit remarkable abilities to flout therapeutic intervention. This outcome is driven by evolution, either as a direct response to intervention (e.g. the evolution of antibiotic resistance), or through long-term coevolution generating host or parasite traits that interact with therapy in undesirable or unpredicted ways. To make progress, the concepts and techniques of evolutionary biology must be deeply integrated with traditional approaches to immunology and pathogen biology. An interdisciplinary approach can inform control strategies, or even patient treatment, positioning us to meet the current and future challenges of controlling infectious diseases.
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- Tom J Little
- Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Vale PF, Wilson AJ, Best A, Boots M, Little TJ. Epidemiological, evolutionary, and coevolutionary implications of context-dependent parasitism. Am Nat 2011; 177:510-21. [PMID: 21460572 DOI: 10.1086/659002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Abstract Victims of infection are expected to suffer increasingly as parasite population growth increases. Yet, under some conditions, faster-growing parasites do not appear to cause more damage, and infections can be quite tolerable. We studied these conditions by assessing how the relationship between parasite population growth and host health is sensitive to environmental variation. In experimental infections of the crustacean Daphnia magna and its bacterial parasite Pasteuria ramosa, we show how easily an interaction can shift from a severe interaction, that is, when host fitness declines substantially with each unit of parasite growth, to a tolerable relationship by changing only simple environmental variables: temperature and food availability. We explored the evolutionary and epidemiological implications of such a shift by modeling pathogen evolution and disease spread under different levels of infection severity and found that environmental shifts that promote tolerance ultimately result in populations harboring more parasitized individuals. We also find that the opportunity for selection, as indicated by the variance around traits, varied considerably with the environmental treatment. Thus, our results suggest two mechanisms that could underlie coevolutionary hotspots and coldspots: spatial variation in tolerance and spatial variation in the opportunity for selection.
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- Pedro F Vale
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Labs, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Filarial parasites develop faster and reproduce earlier in response to host immune effectors that determine filarial life expectancy. PLoS Biol 2010; 8:e1000525. [PMID: 20976099 PMCID: PMC2957396 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2009] [Accepted: 09/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During larval development, filarial nematodes adjust their lifelong reproductive strategy to the presence of anti-parasitic immune cells that determine host resistance and experimental vaccine efficacy. Humans and other mammals mount vigorous immune assaults against helminth parasites, yet there are intriguing reports that the immune response can enhance rather than impair parasite development. It has been hypothesized that helminths, like many free-living organisms, should optimize their development and reproduction in response to cues predicting future life expectancy. However, immune-dependant development by helminth parasites has so far eluded such evolutionary explanation. By manipulating various arms of the immune response of experimental hosts, we show that filarial nematodes, the parasites responsible for debilitating diseases in humans like river blindness and elephantiasis, accelerate their development in response to the IL-5 driven eosinophilia they encounter when infecting a host. Consequently they produce microfilariae, their transmission stages, earlier and in greater numbers. Eosinophilia is a primary host determinant of filarial life expectancy, operating both at larval and at late adult stages in anatomically and temporally separate locations, and is implicated in vaccine-mediated protection. Filarial nematodes are therefore able to adjust their reproductive schedules in response to an environmental predictor of their probability of survival, as proposed by evolutionary theory, thereby mitigating the effects of the immune attack to which helminths are most susceptible. Enhancing protective immunity against filarial nematodes, for example through vaccination, may be less effective at reducing transmission than would be expected and may, at worst, lead to increased transmission and, hence, pathology. Many organisms are able to adapt their development to the severity of their environment based on specific cues, and we have identified such a phenomenon, termed phenotypic plasticity, in the filarial parasite Litomosoides sigmodontis. Filarial nematodes infect about 200 million people worldwide, and much effort is going into finding a vaccine that would complement current drug treatments. Although anti-filarial immunity can be achieved, we show, in accord with evolutionary theory, that when these parasites infect a new host, they are able to adjust their development and reproduction to the presence of immune cells specialized in anti-helminth attack. These developmental schedules are determined within hours and impact their lifelong reproductive strategy; when immune attack is strong, and thus mortality is likely to be high, they produce offspring earlier and in greater numbers. Because current experimental vaccines rely on the very immune elements to which these nematodes adjust their development, their phenotypic plasticity could mitigate the expected reduction of disease burden in vaccinated populations.
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Coevolutionary interactions, such as those between host and parasite, predator and prey, or plant and pollinator, evolve subject to the genes of both interactors. It is clear, for example, that the evolution of pollination strategies can only be understood with knowledge of both the pollinator and the pollinated. Studies of the evolution of virulence, the reduction in host fitness due to infection, have nonetheless tended to focus on parasite evolution. Host-centric approaches have also been proposed—for example, under the rubric of “tolerance”, the ability of hosts to minimize virulence without necessarily minimizing parasite density. Within the tolerance framework, however, there is room for more comprehensive measures of host fitness traits, and for fuller consideration of the consequences of coevolution. For example, the evolution of tolerance can result in changed selection on parasite populations, which should provoke parasite evolution despite the fact that tolerance is not directly antagonistic to parasite fitness. As a result, consideration of the potential for parasite counter-adaptation to host tolerance—whether evolved or medially manipulated—is essential to the emergence of a cohesive theory of biotic partnerships and robust disease control strategies.
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- Tom J Little
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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HbS and HbC associate with malaria transmission: Human genetics links to vaccinology? Vaccine 2010; 28:6403. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.07.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Williams PD. Darwinian interventions: taming pathogens through evolutionary ecology. Trends Parasitol 2009; 26:83-92. [PMID: 20036799 DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2009.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2009] [Revised: 10/27/2009] [Accepted: 11/26/2009] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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From the seemingly inevitable emergence of antibiotic resistance following drug use to the necessity of annual influenza vaccine updates, the ability of pathogens to evolve appears to preclude the development of effective, long-term interventions for many diseases. Despite this gloomy forecast, recent research explores how various principles and concepts from evolutionary ecology might inform practical attempts to bring these disease-causing agents under greater human control. By utilizing evolutionary and ecological information at various scales, these works investigate some promising avenues of disease intervention, from trapping pathogens in evolutionary dead ends, through slowing or inhibiting the process of pathogen adaptation, to more accurate forecasting of pathogen evolutionary trajectories. Thus, an evolutionary ecology perspective might ultimately provide powerful new tools in the pursuit of enduring solutions to the problem of treatment-driven pathogen evolution.
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- Paul David Williams
- University of California at Davis, Environmental Science and Policy, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Mooi FR. Bordetella pertussis and vaccination: the persistence of a genetically monomorphic pathogen. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2009; 10:36-49. [PMID: 19879977 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2009] [Revised: 10/11/2009] [Accepted: 10/20/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Before childhood vaccination was introduced in the 1950s, pertussis or whooping cough was a major cause of infant death worldwide. Widespread vaccination of children was successful in significantly reducing morbidity and mortality. However, despite vaccination, pertussis has persisted and, in the 1990s, resurged in a number of countries with highly vaccinated populations. Indeed, pertussis has become the most prevalent vaccine-preventable disease in developed countries with estimated infection frequencies of 1-6%. Recently vaccinated children are well protected against pertussis disease and its increase is mainly seen in adolescents and adults in which disease symptoms are often mild. The etiologic agent of pertussis, Bordetella pertussis, is extremely monomorphic and its ability to persist in the face of intensive vaccination is intriguing. Numerous studies have shown that B. pertussis populations changed after the introduction of vaccination suggesting adaptation. These adaptations did not involve the acquisition of novel genes but small genetic changes, mainly SNPs, and occurred in successive steps in a period of 40 years. The earliest adaptations resulted in antigenic divergence with vaccine strains. More recently, strains emerged with increased pertussis toxin (Ptx) production. Here I argue that the resurgence of pertussis is the compound effect of pathogen adaptation and waning immunity. I propose that the removal by vaccination of naïve infants as the major source for transmission was the crucial event which has driven the changes in B. pertussis populations. This has selected for strains which are more efficiently transmitted by primed hosts in which immunity has waned. The adaptation of B. pertussis to primed hosts involved delaying an effective immune response by antigenic divergence with vaccine strains and by increasing immune suppression through higher levels of Ptx production. Higher levels of Ptx may also benefit transmission by enhancing clinical symptoms. The study of B. pertussis populations has not only increased our understanding of pathogen evolution, but also suggests way to improve pertussis vaccines, underlining the public health significance of population-based studies of pathogens.
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- Frits R Mooi
- Lab for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Netherlands Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, Natl Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, Netherlands.
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Débarre F, Lenormand T, Gandon S. Evolutionary epidemiology of drug-resistance in space. PLoS Comput Biol 2009; 5:e1000337. [PMID: 19343211 PMCID: PMC2658742 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2008] [Accepted: 02/19/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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How can we optimize the use of drugs against parasites to limit the evolution
of drug resistance? This question has been addressed by many theoretical
studies focusing either on the mixing of various treatments, or their
temporal alternation. Here we consider a different treatment strategy where
the use of the drug may vary in space to prevent the rise of
drug-resistance. We analyze epidemiological models where drug-resistant and
drug-sensitive parasites compete in a one-dimensional spatially
heterogeneous environment. Two different parasite life-cycles are
considered: (i) direct transmission between hosts, and (ii) vector-borne
transmission. In both cases we find a critical size of the treated area,
under which the drug-resistant strain cannot persist. This critical size
depends on the basic reproductive ratios of each strain in each environment,
on the ranges of dispersal, and on the duration of an infection with
drug-resistant parasites. We discuss optimal treatment strategies that limit
disease prevalence and the evolution of drug-resistance. The spread of drug-resistant parasites erodes the efficacy of therapeutic
treatments against many infectious diseases and is a major threat of the 21st
century. The evolution of drug-resistance depends, among other things, on how
the treatments are administered at the population level. “Resistance
management” consists of finding optimal treatment strategies that both
reduce the consequence of an infection at the individual host level, and limit
the spread of drug-resistance in the pathogen population. Several studies have
focused on the effect of mixing different treatments, or of alternating them in
time. Here, we analyze another strategy, where the use of the drug varies
spatially: there are places where no one receives any treatment. We find that
such a spatial heterogeneity can totally prevent the rise of drug-resistance,
provided that the size of treated patches is below a critical threshold. The
range of parasite dispersal, the relative costs and benefits of being
drug-resistant compared to being drug-sensitive, and the duration of an
infection with drug-resistant parasites are the main factors determining the
value of this threshold. Our analysis thus provides some general guidance
regarding the optimal spatial use of drugs to prevent or limit the evolution of
drug-resistance.
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- Florence Débarre
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS-UMR 5175, Montpellier, France.
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