Intestinal microbiota - A modulator of the Trypanosoma cruzi-vector-host triad

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Chagas disease affects millions of people, and it is a major cause of death in Latin America. Prevention and development of an effective treatment for this infection can be favored by a more thorough understanding of T. cruzi interaction with the microbiome of vectors and hosts. Next-generation sequencing technology vastly broadened the knowledge about intestinal bacteria composition, showing that microbiota within each host (triatomines and mammals) is composed by high diversity of species, although few dominant phyla. This fact may represent an ecological balance that was acquired during the evolutionary process of the microbiome-host complex, and that serves to perpetuate this system. In this context, commensal microbiota is also essential to protect hosts, conferring them resistance to pathogens colonization. However, in some situations, the microbiota is not able to prevent infection but only modulate it. Here we will review the role of the microbiota on the parasite-vector-host triad with a focus on the kinetoplastida of medical importance Trypanosoma cruzi. Novel strategies to control Chagas disease based on intestinal microbiome will also be discussed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:137

Enthalten in:

Microbial pathogenesis - 137(2019) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 103711

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Teotônio, Isabella Márcia Soares Nogueira [VerfasserIn]
Dias, Nayra [VerfasserIn]
Hagström-Bex, Luciana [VerfasserIn]
Nitz, Nadjar [VerfasserIn]
Francisco, Amanda Fortes [VerfasserIn]
Hecht, Mariana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chagas disease
Host
Intestinal microbiota
Journal Article
Review
Trypanosoma cruzi
Vector

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Date Completed 30.03.2020

Date Revised 30.03.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103711

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NLM301004927