@article{fdi:010066876,
  title = {{T}he consequences of reservoir host eradication on disease epidemiology in animal communities},
  author = {{A}l-{S}horbaji, {F}. and {R}oche, {B}enjamin and {G}ozlan, {R}odolphe and {B}ritton, {R}. and {A}ndreou, {D}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{N}on-native species have often been linked with introduction of novel pathogens that spill over into native communities, and the amplification of the prevalence of native parasites. {I}n the case of introduced generalist pathogens, their disease epidemiology in the extant communities remains poorly understood. {H}ere, {S}phaerothecum destruens, a generalist fungal-like fish pathogen with bi-modal transmission (direct and environmental) was used to characterise the biological drivers responsible for disease emergence in temperate fish communities. {A} range of biotic factors relating to both the pathogen and the surrounding host communities were used in a novel susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered ({SEIR}) model to test how these factors affected disease epidemiology. {T}hese included: (i) pathogen prevalence in an introduced reservoir host ({P}seudorasbora parva); (ii) the impact of reservoir host eradication and its timing and (iii) the density of potential hosts in surrounding communities and their connectedness. {T}hese were modelled across 23 combinations and indicated that the spill-over of pathogen propagules via environmental transmission resulted in rapid establishment in adjacent fish communities (<1 year). {A}lthough disease dynamics were initially driven by environmental transmission in these communities, once sufficient numbers of native hosts were infected, the disease dynamics were driven by intra-species transmission. {S}ubsequent eradication of the introduced host, irrespective of its timing (after one, two or three years), had limited impact on the long-term disease dynamics among local fish communities. {T}hese outputs reinforced the importance of rapid detection and eradication of non-native species, in particular when such species are identified as healthy reservoirs of a generalist pathogen.},
  keywords = {aquaculture ; community ecology ; emerging infectious diseases ; epidemiological modelling ; invasive species ; topmouth gudgeon},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}merging {M}icrobes and {I}nfections},
  volume = {5},
  numero = {},
  pages = {e46 [12 p.]},
  ISSN = {2222-1751},
  year = {2016},
  DOI = {10.1038/emi.2016.46},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010066876},
}