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ArticleNature communications2024

Detection of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia bacteria in humans, wildlife, and ticks in the Amazon rainforest.

Marie Buysse, Rachid Koual, Florian Binetruy, Benoit de Thoisy, Xavier Baudrimont, Stéphane Garnier, Maylis Douine, Christine Chevillon, Frédéric Delsuc, François Catzeflis and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. Molecular detection of piroplasms,Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025
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  11. Pathogenetic identification in ticks and yaks from Zoige County, China.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Marie Buysse *MIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8160-2470
Rachid Koual *MIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France.
Florian BinetruyMIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France.
Benoit de ThoisyLaboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de Guyane, Cayenne, France.
Xavier BaudrimontDirection Générale des Territoires et de la Mer (DGTM) - Direction de l'environnement, de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation et de la forêt (DEAAF), Cayenne, France.
Stéphane GarnierBiogéosciences, UMR 6282 uB/CNRS/EPHE, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.
Maylis DouineCentre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles-Guyane, INSERM 1424, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, France.
Christine ChevillonMIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1262-5839
Frédéric DelsucInstitut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6501-6287
François CatzeflisInstitut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Didier BouchonEBI, University of Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, Poitiers, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4938-408X
Olivier DuronMIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France. olivier.duron@cnrs.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7426-782X

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) ANR-10-LABX-25-01Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) ANR-21-CE02-0002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tick-borne bacteria of the genera Ehrlichia and Anaplasma cause several emerging human infectious diseases worldwide. In this study, we conduct an extensive survey for Ehrlichia and Anaplasma infections in the rainforests of the Amazon biome of French Guiana. Through molecular genetics and metagenomics reconstruction, we observe a high indigenous biodiversity of infections circulating among humans, wildlife, and ticks inhabiting these ecosystems. Molecular typing identifies these infections as highly endemic, with a majority of new strains and putative species specific to French Guiana. They are detected in unusual rainforest wild animals, suggesting they have distinctive sylvatic transmission cycles. They also present potential health hazards, as revealed by the detection of Candidatus Anaplasma sparouinense in human red blood cells and that of a new close relative of the human pathogen Ehrlichia ewingii, Candidatus Ehrlichia cajennense, in the tick species that most frequently bite humans in South America. The genome assembly of three new putative species obtained from human, sloth, and tick metagenomes further reveals the presence of major homologs of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma virulence factors. These observations converge to classify health hazards associated with Ehrlichia and Anaplasma infections in the Amazon biome as distinct from those in the Northern Hemisphere.

Indexed as

AnaplasmaAnimals, WildEhrlichiaPhylogenyRainforestTicksAnaplasmosisAnimalsEhrlichiosisFrench GuianaGenome, BacterialHumansMetagenomicsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID38734682
PMCPMC11088697

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