4. Establishment and the Domestic Cycle

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-93
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Landaeta-Aqueveque ◽  
Salvador Ayala ◽  
Denis Poblete-Toledo ◽  
Mauricio Canals

AbstractTrichinellosis is a foodborne disease caused by several Trichinella species around the world. In Chile, the domestic cycle was fairly well-studied in previous decades, but has been neglected in recent years. The aims of this study were to analyze, geographically, the incidence of trichinellosis in Chile to assess the relative risk and to analyze the incidence rate fluctuation in the last decades. Using temporal data spanning 1964–2019, as well as geographical data from 2010 to 2019, the time series of cases was analyzed with ARIMA models to explore trends and periodicity. The Dickey-Fuller test was used to study trends, and the Portmanteau test was used to study white noise in the model residuals. The Besag-York-Mollie (BYM) model was used to create Bayesian maps of the level of risk relative to that expected by the overall population. The association of the relative risk with the number of farmed swine was assessed with Spearman’s correlation. The number of annual cases varied between 5 and 220 (mean: 65.13); the annual rate of reported cases varied between 0.03 and 1.9 cases per 105 inhabitants (mean: 0.53). The cases of trichinellosis in Chile showed a downward trend that has become more evident since the 1980s. No periodicities were detected via the autocorrelation function. Communes (the smallest geographical administrative subdivision) with high incidence rates and high relative risk were mostly observed in the Araucanía region. The relative risk of the commune was significantly associated with the number of farmed pigs and boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758). The results allowed us to state that trichinellosis is not a (re)emerging disease in Chile, but the severe economic poverty rate of the Mapuche Indigenous peoples and the high number of backyard and free-ranging pigs seem to be associated with the high risk of trichinellosis in the Araucanía region.


1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Rodrigues Coura ◽  
Angela Cristina Verissimo Junqueira ◽  
Cristina Maria Giordano ◽  
Ilra Renata Komoda Funatsu

At least eighteen species of triatominae have been found in the Brazilian Amazon, nine of them naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi or "cruzi-like" trypanosomes and associated with numerous wild reservoirs. Despite the small number of human cases of Chagas' disease described to date in the Brazilian Amazon the risk that the disease will become endemic in this area is increasing for the following reasons: a) uncontrolled deforestation and colonization altering the ecological balance between reservoir hosts and wild vectors; b) the adaptation of reservoir hosts of T.cruzi and wild vectors to peripheral and intradomiciliary areas, as the sole feeding alternative; c) migration of infected human population from endemic areas, accompanied by domestic reservoir hosts (dogs and cats) or accidentally carrying in their baggage vectors already adapted to the domestic habitat. In short, risks that Chagas' disease will become endemic to the Amazon appear to be linked to the transposition of the wild cycle to the domestic cycle in that area or to transfer of the domestic cycle from endemic areas to the Amazon.


1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
STANLEY A. FREED ◽  
RUTH S. FREED

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01105
Author(s):  
Lina Tao

In order to cope with the complex and severe development situation at home and abroad, in May 2020, the Party Central Committee proposed to accelerate the formation of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the mutual promotion of the domestic and international double cycles. Among them, the consumption of Chinese residents is a “double cycle” key part of strategy. From the perspective of consumption structure and property structure, real estate is an important part of household property and an important consumer object in China and it has a decisive influence on the effect of internal circulation. By constructing a real estate wealth effect model, this paper adopted the impulse response function method based on the VAR model, studies the changes in real estate prices, residents’ incomes, and residents’ consumption. The results show that the three interact with each other. In the long run, real estate has a positive wealth effect, but in the short term, there is a negative wealth effect, and consumers’ expectations of future housing prices will affect current consumption changes. In order to promote the domestic cycle, the author proposes to develop and improve the primary and secondary housing markets to ensure the liquidity of real estate, thereby stimulating consumption; guide residents to form healthy real estate price expectations, prevent large fluctuations in housing prices, and strictly stabilize consumption; the policy positioning of “no speculation” reduces the crowding-out effect of investment and speculative house purchases on residents’ daily consumption, thereby increasing consumption.


2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 2511
Author(s):  
M. LEFKADITIS ◽  
K. SPANOUDIS ◽  
M. TSAKIROGLOU ◽  
A. PANORIAS ◽  
A. SOSSIDOU

Despite the importance of N. caninum in veterinary medicine, knowledge on the prevalence of this parasitosis in dogs is limited in some countries. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of N. caninum infection in stray dogs in Chalkidiki, Northern Greece. This prospective study was conducted between January 2018 and December 2019 in stray dogs aged ≥6 months old. Blood samples were collected by venipuncture before the female and male dogs underwent the spay and castration procedures, respectively. The indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to screen dogs for the presence of IgG antibodies against N. caninum. Of 511 dogs included in this study, 39 (7.63%) were positive for IgG antibodies against N. caninum. Of all the dogs, 221 were males and 290 females, with positive results for IgG antibodies found in 16 (7.24%) males and 23 (7.93%) females. Preventive measures should be developed and implemented to break the domestic cycle between dogs and bovine. We want to highlight the importance of regional reporting of N. caninum infection prevalence in dogs and control measures by veterinarians and veterinary authorities to farmers and public, in order to avoid this disease’s spread.


2018 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Oksanen ◽  
Maria Interisano ◽  
Marja Isomursu ◽  
Petra Heikkinen ◽  
Daniele Tonanzi ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastiaan G. Meerburg ◽  
Chantal B. E. M. Reusken

Rodents are known to cause massive food losses, but are also implicated as reservoirs for a wide variety of zoonotic pathogens. This review discusses the contribution of rodents in the spread and transmission of Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q-fever. We found that rodents have been implicated as reservoirs for Q-fever, but their role in pathogen maintenance, geographic spread and transmission still remains to be clarified. As there are indications for a role of rodents in Q-fever epidemiology, including during the 2007–10 outbreak in the Netherlands, the overall lack of knowledge on the role of rodents warrants studies into their contribution in transmission of C. burnetii from the sylvatic cycle to the domestic cycle, in within-herd transmission, in transmission to surrounding farms and in direct transmission to humans. Although the basic sylvatic and domestic cycles of C. burnetii infection can operate independently, they will overlap in many instances as many areas in the world are occupied by both domestic and wild animals. This area of Q-fever ecology is of interest and research should focus on this aspect of Q-fever epidemiology and, in particular, on the role of rodents therein. More studies are needed that elicit the exact role of rodents in epidemiology of C. burnetii to further optimise disease control.


2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 448-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kálmán Imre ◽  
Edoardo Pozio ◽  
Daniele Tonanzi ◽  
Claudia Sala ◽  
Marius S. Ilie ◽  
...  

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 421
Author(s):  
Ebanja Joseph Ebwanga ◽  
Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu ◽  
Jan Paeshuyse

African swine fever (ASF) is a hemorrhagic contagious porcine disease caused by the African swine fever virus. The disease poses enormous problems to the pork industry with pig mortality ranging from 30% to 100%, depending on the virulence of the virus circulating. Cameroon, situated in Central Africa is one of the countries in which the African swine fever virus (ASFV) has been endemic since its first outbreak in 1982. The disease is a major problem to the pig industry causing huge economic losses. A clear and concise review on ASF in Cameroon relating to the entry and current genotype of the virus, epidemiology, pathogenesis and economic impact is lacking. A thorough literature search revealed: (1) The virus entered the country in 1982 and caused the death of 80% of the pigs. (2) All isolates belong to serogroup I and only Genotype I is circulating in Cameroon principally in the domestic cycle as there are neither soft ticks nor warthog in the pig production regions sampled. (3) 70% of the pig farmers are involved in the traditional system of production with local and hybrid breeds of pigs with minimal input. (4) The country is endemic to the virus with huge economic losses. (5) So far, very little research has been effected on ASFV in Cameroon. This review gives a detailed overview of the situation of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in the country along with potential avenues for future research into ASFV in Cameroon.


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