{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Ruan Y"],"funding":["Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing","National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["186"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8017775"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Background
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that can infect nearly all invertebrates and vertebrates, posing a threat to public health and causing large economic losses to animal industries such as those of honeybees, silkworms and shrimp. However, the global epidemiology of these pathogens is far from illuminated.Methods
Publications on microsporidian infections were obtained from PubMed, Science Direct and Web of Science and filtered according to the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale. Infection data about pathogens, hosts, geography and sampling dates were manually retrieved from the publications and screened for high quality. Prevalence rates and risk factors for different pathogens and hosts were analyzed by conducting a meta-analysis. The geog"],"journal":["Parasites & vectors"],"pubmed_title":["The largest meta-analysis on the global prevalence of microsporidia in mammals, avian and water provides insights into the epidemic features of these ubiquitous pathogens."],"pmcid":["PMC8017775"],"funding_grant_id":["31772678","31770159","31472151","cstc2019yszx- jcyjX0010"],"pubmed_authors":["Pan G","Ruan Y","Guo J","Bao J","Li T","Xu X","He Q","Li L","Zhou Z"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The largest meta-analysis on the global prevalence of microsporidia in mammals, avian and water provides insights into the epidemic features of these ubiquitous pathogens.","description":"Background
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that can infect nearly all invertebrates and vertebrates, posing a threat to public health and causing large economic losses to animal industries such as those of honeybees, silkworms and shrimp. However, the global epidemiology of these pathogens is far from illuminated.Methods
Publications on microsporidian infections were obtained from PubMed, Science Direct and Web of Science and filtered according to the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale. Infection data about pathogens, hosts, geography and sampling dates were manually retrieved from the publications and screened for high quality. Prevalence rates and risk factors for different pathogens and hosts were analyzed by conducting a meta-analysis. The geog","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Apr","modification":"2026-05-08T00:33:47.701Z","creation":"2022-02-09T13:14:45.014Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8017775","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33794979"],"doi":["10.1186/s13071-021-04700-x"]}}