A systems biology approach to infectious disease transmission: linking individuals populations and ecosystems
传染病传播的系统生物学方法:将个体群体和生态系统联系起来
基本信息
- 批准号:BB/D020042/1
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 80.19万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:英国
- 项目类别:Fellowship
- 财政年份:2006
- 资助国家:英国
- 起止时间:2006 至 无数据
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
Did you ever wonder (and wish) that mosquitoes would bite your dog instead of you? Ecological theory tells us that animals should evolve to specialize on diets that most increase their survival and reproduction. In the case of blood-feeding insects, this evolution may explain why some species bite only humans, whereas others prefer domesticated or wild animals. Evidence shows that the survival and reproduction of most blood-feeding insects, including mosquitoes, bed bugs, fleas, and biting flies, depends on the species of vertebrate that they bite. The survival of parasites within these insects, many of whom cause severe disease in humans and animals, is also influenced by vertebrate species choice; with the blood of some animals enhancing parasite growth, and others blocking it. Given this is the case, what would happen if the range of animal hosts available to blood-feeding insects was suddenly changed on a landscape scale, and how would this change impact the spread of human and animal disease? This experiment is occurring in nature, where the variety of animal species available to blood-feeding insects is rapidly changing as human populations expand; reducing the availability of other vertebrates in favour of themselves and their livestock. The downstream impacts of this narrowing of vertebrate species choice are not yet known; particularly with respect to how it will impact the biodiversity and abundance of biting insects, and the spread of the diseases they carry. Understanding how these changes in vertebrate host species composition influence the survival, population growth and parasite transmission potential of biting insects is the central aim of this project. Using this information to formulate and test mathematical models that predict how insect abundance and disease risk will change in response to specific human-induced land-use changes is my ultimate goal. In Africa, a continent inflicted by the world's deadliest insect-borne diseases; changes in land-use practices are starting to take place. Large-scale urbanization and intensive agricultural development are not yet common, but will become increasingly so within the next decade. Thus here more than anywhere, study of the impact of vertebrate species diversity on blood-feeding insects has the potential to provide pre-emptive solutions to detrimental ecological and epidemiological consequences associated with changes in land use. I will conduct a series of novel laboratory analyses, biologically realistic behavioural assays, and intensive field collections in order to test whether the survival and reproduction of the common African mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae s.s. and An. arabiensis is influenced by the availability of host species that they prefer (humans and cows) relative to those that are secondary (goats, chickens and dogs). I will test whether the ability of these two mosquito species to compete with one another is determined by the relative abundance of their preferred host species (humans for An. gambiae, and cows for An. arabiensis). Finally I will investigate whether the development of malaria parasites within these mosquitoes is influenced by the type of blood (human, cow, goat, chicken or dog) that they consume when they are infected. Information gathered in the experiments will be used to formulate a mathematical model of mosquito and parasite population growth as a function of host species composition. I will use this model to examine how skewing the composition of vertebrate hosts towards humans (as expected under urbanization), or to a mixture of livestock and humans (as expected under agricultural expansion) will influence mosquito abundance, biodiversity, and malaria transmission intensity. Finally, these models will be fit to actual landscapes within a malaria-endemic region of east Africa to predict how current and forecasted changes in land-use activities could impact Anopheline population dynamics and human health.
您是否曾经想过(并希望)蚊子会咬您的狗代替您?生态理论告诉我们,动物应该演变为专门研究大多数增加其生存和繁殖的饮食。就喂食昆虫而言,这种进化可以解释为什么有些物种只咬人,而另一些物种则喜欢驯养或野生动物。有证据表明,大多数喂食昆虫的生存和繁殖,包括蚊子,臭虫,跳蚤和咬蝇,取决于它们咬伤的脊椎动物物种。这些昆虫在这些昆虫中的生存,其中许多人在人类和动物中引起严重疾病,也受脊椎动物物种的选择影响。有些动物的血液增强了寄生虫的生长,而另一些动物则阻止了寄生虫。鉴于这种情况,如果可以在景观尺度上突然改变喂食昆虫的动物宿主范围会发生什么?这种变化将如何影响人类和动物疾病的传播?该实验发生在自然界中,随着人类种群的扩展,可用于血液喂养昆虫的动物种类正在迅速改变。减少其他脊椎动物的可用性,以支持自己和牲畜。脊椎动物物种选择的这种狭窄的下游影响尚不清楚。特别是关于它将如何影响生物多样性和咬人昆虫的丰富性,以及它们携带的疾病的传播。了解脊椎动物宿主物种组成的这些变化如何影响咬昆虫的生存,种群生长和寄生虫传播潜力是该项目的核心目的。使用这些信息来制定和测试数学模型,以预测昆虫的丰度和疾病风险如何响应特定的人类引起的土地利用变化是我的最终目标。在非洲,由世界上最致命的昆虫传播疾病造成的大陆;土地利用实践的变化开始发生。大规模的城市化和密集的农业发展尚不常见,但在未来十年内将变得越来越多。因此,在这里,研究脊椎动物物种多样性对喂食昆虫的影响的研究可能会为与土地使用变化相关的有害生态和流行病学后果提供先发制人的解决方案。我将进行一系列新颖的实验室分析,生物学上现实的行为测定和密集的现场收集,以测试是否生存和繁殖非洲蚊子的蚊子gambiae S.S.和一个。阿拉伯人受到相对于次要的(山羊,鸡和狗)的宿主物种的可用性(人类和牛)的影响。我将测试这两种蚊子彼此竞争的能力是否取决于其首选宿主物种的相对丰度(gambiae的人类和阿拉伯语的母牛)。最后,我将调查这些蚊子中疟疾寄生虫的发育是否受到感染时消耗的血液(人类,牛,山羊,鸡肉或狗)的影响。实验中收集的信息将用于制定蚊子和寄生虫种群生长的数学模型,这是宿主物种组成的函数。我将使用该模型来检查脊椎动物宿主对人类的组成(如城市化下的预期),或者是牲畜和人类的混合物(如农业扩张所预期的)将影响蚊子丰度,生物多样性和疟疾的传播强度。最后,这些模型将适合东非疟疾 - 流行区域内的实际景观,以预测目前和预测土地利用活动的变化可能会影响瞬间人群人口动态和人类健康。
项目成果
期刊论文数量(10)
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Establishment of a large semi-field system for experimental study of African malaria vector ecology and control in Tanzania.
在坦桑尼亚建立一个大型半田系统,用于非洲疟疾媒介生态学和控制的实验研究。
- DOI:10.1186/1475-2875-7-158
- 发表时间:2008-08-20
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:3
- 作者:Ferguson, Heather M.;Ng'habi, Kija R.;Walder, Thomas;Kadungula, Demetrius;Moore, Sarah J.;Lyimo, Issa;Russell, Tanya L.;Urassa, Honorathy;Mshinda, Hassan;Killeen, Gerry F.;Knols, Bart G. J.
- 通讯作者:Knols, Bart G. J.
The impact of low erythrocyte density in human blood on the fitness and energetic reserves of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.
- DOI:10.1186/1475-2875-12-45
- 发表时间:2013-02-01
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:3
- 作者:Emami SN;Ranford-Cartwright LC;Ferguson HM
- 通讯作者:Ferguson HM
The impact of host species and vector control measures on the fitness of African malaria vectors.
宿主物种和病媒控制措施对非洲疟疾病媒适应性的影响。
- DOI:10.1098/rspb.2012.2823
- 发表时间:2013
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Lyimo IN
- 通讯作者:Lyimo IN
Selection of mosquito life-histories: a hidden weapon against malaria?
- DOI:10.1186/1475-2875-11-106
- 发表时间:2012-04-03
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:3
- 作者:Ferguson HM;Maire N;Takken W;Lyimo IN;Briët O;Lindsay SW;Smith TA
- 通讯作者:Smith TA
The transmission potential of malaria-infected mosquitoes (An.gambiae-Keele, An.arabiensis-Ifakara) is altered by the vertebrate blood type they consume during parasite development.
- DOI:10.1038/srep40520
- 发表时间:2017-01-17
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:4.6
- 作者:Emami SN;Ranford-Cartwright LC;Ferguson HM
- 通讯作者:Ferguson HM
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Heather Ferguson其他文献
The Effects of Caloric Vestibular Stimulation (CVS) on Low Awareness States
- DOI:
10.1016/j.apmr.2014.07.226 - 发表时间:
2014-10-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:
- 作者:
Serena Vanzan;Heather Ferguson;Mayur Bodani;Mohammed Sakel - 通讯作者:
Mohammed Sakel
The killing project : increasing the efficiency of cytotoxic T lymphocytes in killing cytomegalovirus-infected cells in an in vitro setting
杀伤项目:提高细胞毒性T淋巴细胞在体外杀死巨细胞病毒感染细胞的效率
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2011 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
Heather Ferguson;K. Golden - 通讯作者:
K. Golden
Validity of individual test items of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) in stroke
阿登布鲁克认知考试修订版 (ACE-R) 中风中各个测试项目的有效性
- DOI:
10.12968/ijtr.2012.19.4.227 - 发表时间:
2012 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0.5
- 作者:
Heather Ferguson;N. Lincoln - 通讯作者:
N. Lincoln
Heather Ferguson的其他文献
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{{ truncateString('Heather Ferguson', 18)}}的其他基金
Consolidating Social Interaction Through Sleep
通过睡眠巩固社交互动
- 批准号:
ES/X010643/1 - 财政年份:2023
- 资助金额:
$ 80.19万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
Assessing the risk of mosquito vector-borne diseases in Scotland and their response to environmental change
评估苏格兰蚊媒传播疾病的风险及其对环境变化的反应
- 批准号:
BB/X018113/1 - 财政年份:2023
- 资助金额:
$ 80.19万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
N Govella, Ifakara Health Institute, Integrating intervention targetable behaviours of malaria vectors to optimize interventions selection and impact
N Govella,伊法卡拉健康研究所,整合疟疾病媒的干预目标行为,以优化干预措施选择和影响
- 批准号:
MR/T008873/1 - 财政年份:2020
- 资助金额:
$ 80.19万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
Development of a new tool for malaria mosquito surveillance to improve vector control
开发疟疾蚊子监测新工具以改善病媒控制
- 批准号:
MR/P025501/1 - 财政年份:2017
- 资助金额:
$ 80.19万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
Zika: The Ecology of Zika transmision in Colombia and Ecuador
寨卡:哥伦比亚和厄瓜多尔寨卡传播的生态
- 批准号:
MC_PC_15081 - 财政年份:2016
- 资助金额:
$ 80.19万 - 项目类别:
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