Biodiversity in the Lyme-light: ecological restoration and tick-borne diseases in Europe |
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| Institution: | 1. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands;2. Virology and Pathogenesis Group, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, UK;3. National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, UK;4. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands;1. Vector Biology Unit, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, 10117 Berlin, Germany;2. Viruses and RNA Interference Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR3569, F-75015 Paris, France;3. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA;1. Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA;2. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA;1. Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå 90187, Sweden;2. Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå 90187, Sweden;3. Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine Unit (GEM), Centre of Excellence in Malaria Research, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand;1. University of Heidelberg Medical School, Center for Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and German Center for Infection Research, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;2. Institut Pasteur, Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit and CNRS UMR3691, Université de Paris Cité, 75724 Paris, France;1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;2. Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA;1. Laboratory of Parasitology, FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium;2. Laboratory of Immunology-Vaccinology, FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Biodiversity loss and the emergence of zoonotic diseases are two major global challenges. An urgent question is how ecosystems and wildlife communities can be restored whilst minimizing the risk of zoonotic diseases carried by wildlife. Here, we evaluate how current ambitions to restore Europe’s natural ecosystems may affect the hazard of diseases vectored by the tick Ixodes ricinus at different scales. We find that effects of restoration efforts on tick abundance are relatively straightforward but that the interacting effects of vertebrate diversity and abundance on pathogen transmission are insufficiently known. Long-term integrated surveillance of wildlife communities, ticks, and their pathogens is needed to understand their interactions and to prevent nature restoration from increasing tick-borne disease (TBD) hazard. |
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