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Esteve-Gassent MD, Pérez de León AA, Romero-Salas D, Feria-Arroyo TP, Patino R, Castro-Arellano I, Gordillo-Pérez G, Auclair A, Goolsby J, Rodriguez-Vivas RI, Estrada-Franco JG. Pathogenic Landscape of Transboundary Zoonotic Diseases in the Mexico-US Border Along the Rio Grande. Front Public Health 2014; 2:177. [PMID: 25453027 PMCID: PMC4233934 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2014] [Accepted: 09/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Transboundary zoonotic diseases, several of which are vector borne, can maintain a dynamic focus and have pathogens circulating in geographic regions encircling multiple geopolitical boundaries. Global change is intensifying transboundary problems, including the spatial variation of the risk and incidence of zoonotic diseases. The complexity of these challenges can be greater in areas where rivers delineate international boundaries and encompass transitions between ecozones. The Rio Grande serves as a natural border between the US State of Texas and the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. Not only do millions of people live in this transboundary region, but also a substantial amount of goods and people pass through it everyday. Moreover, it occurs over a region that functions as a corridor for animal migrations, and thus links the Neotropic and Nearctic biogeographic zones, with the latter being a known foci of zoonotic diseases. However, the pathogenic landscape of important zoonotic diseases in the south Texas-Mexico transboundary region remains to be fully understood. An international perspective on the interplay between disease systems, ecosystem processes, land use, and human behaviors is applied here to analyze landscape and spatial features of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Hantavirus disease, Lyme Borreliosis, Leptospirosis, Bartonellosis, Chagas disease, human Babesiosis, and Leishmaniasis. Surveillance systems following the One Health approach with a regional perspective will help identifying opportunities to mitigate the health burden of those diseases on human and animal populations. It is proposed that the Mexico-US border along the Rio Grande region be viewed as a continuum landscape where zoonotic pathogens circulate regardless of national borders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, México
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- Department of Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX, USA
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA
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- Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Centro Médico Nacional SXXI, IMSS, Distrito Federal, México
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- Environmental Risk Analysis Systems, Policy and Program Development, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Riverdale, MD, USA
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- Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Edinburg, TX, USA
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- Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Cuerpo Académico de Salud Animal, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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- Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria Zootecnia, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados en Salud Animal, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, México
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Favacho ARM, Roger I, Akemi AK, Pessoa AA, Varon AG, Gomes R, Godoy DT, Pereira S, Lemos ERS. Molecular identification of Bartonella henselae in a seronegative cat scratch disease patient with AIDS in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 2014; 56:363-5. [PMID: 25076441 PMCID: PMC4131826 DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652014000400017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Accepted: 11/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Bartonella henselae is associated with a wide spectrum of clinical
manifestations, including cat scratch disease, endocarditis and meningoencephalitis,
in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report the first molecularly
confirmed case of B. henselae infection in an AIDS patient in state
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although DNA sequence of B. henselae has
been detected by polymerase chain reaction in a lymph node biopsy, acute and
convalescent sera were nonreactive.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos (LAPCLIN-DERMZOO), Instituto de Pesquisa Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Hantaviroses e Rickettsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC)/FIOCRUZ
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- Laboratório de Hantaviroses e Rickettsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC)/FIOCRUZ
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- Laboratório de Hantaviroses e Rickettsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC)/FIOCRUZ
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos (LAPCLIN-DERMZOO), Instituto de Pesquisa Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Hantaviroses e Rickettsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC)/FIOCRUZ
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We describe an immunocompetent child with cat scratch disease and pulmonary nodules as part of her initial presentation. Although pulmonary manifestations have been reported with cat scratch disease, nodules are rare in the normal host.
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