Macro-parasites and micro-parasites co-exist in rodent communities but are associated with different community-level parameters.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife species are often heavily parasitized by multiple infections simultaneously. Yet research on sylvatic transmission cycles, tend to focus on host interactions with a single parasite and neglects the influence of co-infections by other pathogens and parasites. Co-infections between macro-parasites and micro-parasites can alter mechanisms that regulate pathogenesis and are important for understanding disease emergence and dynamics. Wildlife rodent hosts in the Lyme disease system are infected with macro-parasites (i.e., ticks and helminths) and micro-parasites (i.e., Borrelia spp.), however, there has not been a study that investigates the interaction of all three parasites (i.e., I. pacificus, Borrelia spp., and helminths) and how these co-infections impact prev

SUBMITTER: Salomon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10481151 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature