Keegan, Shaun P 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8302-4408, Pedersen, Amy B ORCID: 0000-0002-1385-1360 and Fenton, Andy ORCID: 0000-0002-7676-917X
(2024)
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale.
Proceedings. Biological sciences, 291 (2021).
20240103-.
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Abstract
Within-host interactions among coinfecting parasites can have major consequences for individual infection risk and disease severity. However, the impact of these within-host interactions on between-host parasite transmission, and the spatial scales over which they occur, remain unknown. We developed and apply a novel spatially explicit analysis to parasite infection data from a wild wood mouse (<i>Apodemus sylvaticus</i>) population. We previously demonstrated a strong within-host negative interaction between two wood mouse gastrointestinal parasites, the nematode <i>Heligmosomoides polygyrus</i> and the coccidian <i>Eimeria hungaryensis</i>, using drug-treatment experiments. Here, we show this negative within-host interaction can significantly alter the between-host transmission dynamics of <i>E. hungaryensis</i>, but only within spatially restricted neighbourhoods around each host. However, for the closely related species <i>E. apionodes</i>, which experiments show does not interact strongly with <i>H. polygyrus</i>, we did not find any effect on transmission over any spatial scale. Our results demonstrate that the effects of within-host coinfection interactions can ripple out beyond each host to alter the transmission dynamics of the parasites, but only over local scales that likely reflect the spatial dimension of transmission. Hence there may be knock-on consequences of drug treatments impacting the transmission of non-target parasites, altering infection risks even for non-treated individuals in the wider neighbourhood.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Animals, Mice, Parasites, Eimeria, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic, Disease Susceptibility, Murinae, Host-Parasite Interactions, Coinfection |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2024 07:17 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2024 22:17 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2024.0103 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3180444 |
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