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| Mulero, Stephen; Boissier, Jérôme; Allienne, Jean‐françois; Quilichini, Yann; Foata, Joséphine; Pointier, Jean‐pierre; Rey, Olivier. |
| Under ongoing climate changes, the development of large‐scale monitoring tools for assessing the risk of disease emergence constitutes an urging challenge. This is particularly the case for snail‐borne diseases such as the urogenital bilharziasis that emerged in Corsica and threat European countries. The expansion of this tropical disease mainly relies on the local presence of competent snail hosts such as Bulinus truncatus. Unfortunately, very little is known about the actual repartition of freshwater snails worldwide which makes new emergences difficult to predict. In this study, we developed two ready‐to‐use environmental DNA‐based methods for assessing the distribution of B. truncatus from water samples collected in the field. We used two approaches, a... |
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Palavras-chave: Bulinus truncatus; Corsica; DdPCR; Environmental DNA; Environmental monitoring; QPCR; Schistosomiasis. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00593/70554/68723.pdf |
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| Oleaga, Ana; Rey, Olivier; Polack, Bruno; Grech-angelini, Sébastien; Quilichini, Yann; Pérez-sánchez, Ricardo; Boireau, Pascal; Mulero, Stephen; Brunet, Aimé; Rogon, Anne; Vallée, Isabelle; Kincaid-smith, Julien; Allienne, Jean-françois; Boissier, Jérôme. |
| Environmental and anthropogenic changes are expected to promote emergence and spread of pathogens worldwide. Since 2013, human urogenital schistosomiasis is established in Corsica island (France). Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease affecting both humans and animals. The parasite involved in the Corsican outbreak is a hybrid form between Schistosoma haematobium, a human parasite, and Schistosoma bovis, a livestock parasite. S. bovis has been detected in Corsican livestock few decades ago raising the questions whether hybridization occurred in Corsica and if animals could behave as a reservoir for the recently established parasite lineage. The latter hypothesis has huge epidemiological outcomes since the emergence of a zoonotic lineage of schistosomes... |
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| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00504/61566/65491.pdf |
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| Mulero, Stephen; Toulza, Eve; Loisier, Anaïs; Zimmerman, Meryl; Allienne, Jean-françois; Foata, Joséphine; Quilichini, Yann; Pointier, Jean-pierre; Rey, Olivier; Boissier, Jérôme. |
| To assess the effect of anthropogenic activities on ecosystems, it is of prime importance to develop new tools enabling a rapid characterization of ecological communities. Freshwater ecosystems are particularly impacted and threatened by human activities and need thorough attention to preserve their biodiversity and the ecological services they provide. Studying such ecosystems is generally difficult because the associated organisms are hard to sample and to monitor. We present a ready-to-use environmental metabarcoding protocol to characterize and monitor the freshwater gastropods communities from water samples. The efficiency of this new tool was compared to a classical malacological survey at 19 sampled sites from 10 distinct rivers distributed over... |
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Palavras-chave: Biomonitoring; Corsica; Environmental DNA; Malacology; Metabarcoding; Snail communities. |
| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00666/77777/79917.docx |
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| Kincaid-smith, Julien; Mathieu-bégné, Eglantine; Chaparro, Cristian; Reguera-gomez, Marta; Mulero, Stephen; Allienne, Jean-francois; Toulza, Eve; Boissier, Jérôme; Lamberton, Poppy H. L.. |
| Species usually develop reproductive isolation mechanisms allowing them to avoid interbreeding. These preventive barriers can act before reproduction, “pre-zygotic barriers”, or after reproduction, “post-zygotic barriers”. Pre-zygotic barriers prevent unfavourable mating, while post-zygotic barriers determine the viability and selective success of the hybrid offspring. Hybridization in parasites and the underlying reproductive isolation mechanisms maintaining their genetic integrity have been overlooked. Using an integrated approach this work aims to quantify the relative importance of pre-zygotic barriers in Schistosoma haematobium x S. bovis crosses. These two co-endemic species cause schistosomiasis, one of the major debilitating parasitic diseases... |
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| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00693/80481/83621.pdf |
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| Ramalli, Lauriane; Mulero, Stephen; Noel, Harold; Chiappini, Jean-dominique; Vincent, Josselin; Barre-cardi, Helene; Malfait, Philippe; Normand, Guillaume; Busato, Florian; Gendrin, Vincent; Allienne, Jean-francois; Fillaux, Judith; Boissier, Jerome; Berry, Antoine. |
| Seven cases of urogenital schistosomiasis occurred in Corsica in 2015 and 2016. The episodes were related to exposure to the same river and involved the same parasite strain as an outbreak with 106 cases in summer 2013. The connection calls for further investigations on the presence of an animal reservoir and the survival of infested snails during winter. However, recontamination of the river from previously infected bathers remains the most likely hypothesis. Since 2015, seven cases of urogenital schistosomiasis reported exposure to the Cavu river in southern Corsica. They had no history of contact to fresh water in endemic areas. Here, we describe the cases indicating persistent schistosomal transmission linked to this river since 2013. To date, no... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00615/72705/71744.pdf |
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