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Emerging sporotrichosis is driven by clonal and recombinant Sporothrix species

Overview of attention for article published in Emerging Microbes & Infections, January 2019
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Title
Emerging sporotrichosis is driven by clonal and recombinant Sporothrix species
Published in
Emerging Microbes & Infections, January 2019
DOI 10.1038/emi.2014.33
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Anderson Messias Rodrigues, GSybren de Hoog, Yu Zhang, Zoilo Pires de Camargo

Abstract

Sporotrichosis, caused by agents of the fungal genus Sporothrix, occurs worldwide, but the infectious species are not evenly distributed. Sporothrix propagules usually gain entry into the warm-blooded host through minor trauma to the skin from contaminated plant debris or through scratches or bites from felines carrying the disease, generally in the form of outbreaks. Over the last decade, sporotrichosis has changed from a relatively obscure endemic infection to an epidemic zoonotic health problem. We evaluated the impact of the feline host on the epidemiology, spatial distribution, prevalence and genetic diversity of human sporotrichosis. Nuclear and mitochondrial markers revealed large structural genetic differences between S. brasiliensis and S. schenckii populations, suggesting that the interplay of host, pathogen and environment has a structuring effect on the diversity, frequency and distribution of Sporothrix species. Phylogenetic data support a recent habitat shift within S. brasiliensis from plant to cat that seems to have occurred in southeastern Brazil and is responsible for its emergence. A clonal structure was found in the early expansionary phase of the cat-human epidemic. However, the prevalent recombination structure in the plant-associated pathogen S. schenckii generates a diversity of genotypes that did not show any significant increase in frequency as etiological agents of human infection over time. These results suggest that closely related pathogens can follow different strategies in epidemics. Thus, species-specific types of transmission may require distinct public health strategies for disease control.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 122 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 26%
Researcher 10 8%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 21 17%
Unknown 34 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 11%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 11 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 7%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 39 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2015.
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#12,705,732
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#640
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#195,370
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Outputs of similar age from Emerging Microbes & Infections
#167
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