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Countries where brucellosis has effectively been controlled have used the following procedures: reliable live vaccines e. Accordingly, these countries have also narrowed the genetic pool of virulent brucellae and succeeded in eradicating human brucellosis. The basic reproductive number, also known as R 0 , is the average number of secondary infections arising from one infected individual in a completely susceptible animal population Gandon et al. Higher the R 0 value, higher will be the number of subsequently infected individuals.

Concomitantly, larger and denser the population of susceptible individuals higher would be the chances for the pathogen to achieve a steady and successful adaptation in the host. Herd immunity theory and the basic reproductive ratio R 0 in Brucella herd infections. Herd immunity theory proposes that the protective effect of Brucella vaccinated individuals in a given population extends beyond to unvaccinated population.

R 0 corresponds to the average number of new Brucella infections caused by single infected source. If acquired immunity is present in the herd, the population is no longer entirely susceptible. The greater the proportion of individuals is immune to Brucella , the smaller the probability that a susceptible host will come into contact with an infectious animal.

Then, the transmission from one animal to other is likely to be disrupted when an appropriate number of the population predicted on the basis of R 0 are immune to the bacterium. It is predicted that vaccines with lower protection rate require larger coverture and greater actions of culling of the animals. New productive infections are depicted by black solid arrows; unproductive transmission is indicated by dashed blunt arrows.


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Yet, brucellosis is a complex disease and significant political and economic interests are often in play Moreno, ; Pappas and Memish, ; Lundquist, Of all the problems in control programs, the introduction of low protection rate vaccines stands as a major drawback Blasco et al. Apart from their failure in controlling brucellosis, there are long-term consequences in the use vaccines with low efficacy. In this direction a variety of evolutionary scenarios are possible Gandon et al. Effective vaccination limits Brucella infection, restricts shedding, hampers transmission from animal to animal and diminishes the risk of zoonosis Nicoletti, In addition, when combined with removal of positive infected animals, efficient vaccination may select for breeds with higher resistance against the disease Adams and Schutta, Immunization with efficient vaccines may replace natural infections by inducing competent immunity Plommet et al.

In contrast, inefficient vaccines currently used in many countries for the control of bovine, sheep, or caprine brucellosis might work in the opposite direction.

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In curse this will increase the number of secondary infections. Hence, if p is too big it may be impossible to eradicate brucellosis as it has been the case in many countries where vaccines of low-efficacy have extensively been used Blasco et al. Sceneries for vaccine performances against brucellosis according to various models. Protection rate by low-efficacy vaccines or low coverage vaccination are not capable to eradicate brucellosis in four decades solid lines , independently of the initial prevalence.

The critical threshold applies to both: i the proportion of the population that needs to be vaccinated, and; ii the protective quality of the vaccine adapted from Amaku et al. B Prediction for the elimination or persistence or of brucellosis according to R 0 and the critical level of vaccination V c. However, if p is too big it may be impossible to eradicate the Brucella infection.

Parameters such as culling of the infected animals and diminishing of the density of the susceptible animals have a significant impact in both A and B since by reducing the value of p not shown. Selection pressures may work in the same direction observed for non-sterilizing antibiotic treatments, in which the surviving microbes may display a higher resistance edge Davies and Davies, Furthermore, anti- Brucella vaccines lacking some fundamental virulent molecular determinants or displaying a large collection of mutations Wang et al.

Prediction for emergence of resistant-vaccine Brucella strains and the false sense of security. A Immunization with low efficacy vaccines may change the competitive balance between Brucella virulent strains. Before vaccination 6—8 months of age one prevalent strain is observed blue line. The vaccine resistant-strain arises from the Brucella pool, either through mutation of the prevalent strain or by selection of previously existing strains.

Only after the R 0 of the vaccine-resistant strain has exceeded that of the prevalent strain, then a new brucellosis epidemic event develops. Solid blue and red lines correspond to the prevalence ordinate; dashed lines correspond to the R 0 ordinate adapted from Scherer and McLean, In a bovine close homogeneous population a lower value for R 0 would be associated with a lower Brucella prevalence. The false sense of security shadow area for a given vaccine lays between the expected vaccine performance e.

This sense of security is sustained in the trust and faith that people have developed on vaccines that successfully prevented and eradicated diseases. If the vaccine is highly efficient, then the faith and trust is justified and not harm is done. The use of anti- Brucella vaccines displaying low efficacy could generate a false sense of security in the minds of livestock farmers and Veterinary Health authorities, who may believe that herds are fully protected.

This is particularly relevant when prevalence is high and surveillance is low to begin with and when the favored virulent microbe emerges within a restricted population. These arguments are supported by several mathematical and epidemiological models Gandon et al. In the light of unrestricted use of antibiotics the emergence of antibiotic resistant Brucella clones should not be excluded a priori. However, in contrast to other bacterial pathogens, antibiotics do not seem to play a significant selective role in brucellosis.

Due to economical, epidemiological, and public health reasons, treatment with antibiotics has been precluded in productive animals with brucellosis Guerra and Nicoletti, ; Radwan et al. One exception is canine brucellosis.

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Pets with brucellosis are frequently treated with antibiotics, not always with success Ledbetter et al. Antibiotics have also been used in brucellosis research for selecting specific strains displaying antibiotic resistance Schurig et al. This phenomenon may relate to the absence of plasmids and lysogenic phages in Brucella organisms, as it has been explained elsewhere Moreno, In this sense, the short-term emergence of antibiotic resistant Brucella does seem plausible.

How, when, and where pathogens cross the boundaries that separate their natural hosts from human populations and provoke an epidemic disease, is not entirely known. Although Brucella animal pathogens have already achieved the first three stages in humans and in occasions the fourth stage Meltzer et al. Thus, Brucella has not yet reached the R 0 threshold to emerge as permanent pathogen within human populations and contagion remains dependent on animal reservoirs.

Retrospective and prospective perspectives on zoonotic brucellosis

However, under these circumstances human brucellosis may display a R 0 above the threshold that depends on the zoonotic infection rate. For instance, as consequence of high prevalence in domestic animal reservoirs sheep in Inner Mongolia, the R 0 for human infection corresponds to 1. Under the prevailing control measures and use of low protective vaccines Blasco et al. Ecological factors and human activities may influence and induce changes in the microbial virulence patterns.

Brucella organisms lack classical molecular markers commonly used to trace virulence such as toxins, fimbria, plasmids, capsules, antigenic variation or resistant forms. Moreover, many of the molecular determinants such as cell envelope components, secretion systems, regulatory systems, transporters, and effectors assigned as virulent factors are also found in soil bacteria related to brucellae Barquero-Calvo et al. As stated before, Brucella species form a compact genetic cluster and display host preference commensurate with their phylogenetic dispersion Maquart et al.

Therefore, the major scientific challenges that brucellosis research confronts relate to the identification of those discrete genotypic and phenotypic changes that have favored the adaptation to the preferred hosts and those molecular determinants that have made some Brucella species more virulent than others.

In addition, efficient vaccines for dogs, pigs, water buffalo, and camels, as well as for some wild life animals, are required Godfroid et al. During the first half of the twentieth century through the early s, efficient live Brucella S19 and Rev 1 vaccines for preventing brucellosis were developed together with robust procedures for testing their safety and efficacy Cotton et al. In addition, various inexpensive and straightforward serological tests as well as good management strategies were successfully implemented Crawford and Hidalgo, ; Alton et al.

Those were the days when brucellosis control programs succeeded in many parts of the world Crawford and Hidalgo, ; Plommet, Circumstances have changed and the global agenda has been modified towards other interests. Taking into account that ignorance persists and economic profits pursue without other considerations, it is difficult to envision what will happen and how biological and cultural evolution will shape brucellosis and human battlement against this zoonotic disease.

For much of the twentieth century the misuse of antibiotics has taken place with little concern on the evolutionary consequences and selection of antibiotic resistance hypervirulent bacterial strains Davies and Davies, It is our contention that we should not repeat that complacency with misuse of poor brucellosis vaccines, dubious immunization protocols, expensive diagnostic tests, and inadequate management procedures.

Edgardo Moreno wrote and revised the manuscript and made the figures. The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Journal List Front Microbiol v. Front Microbiol. Published online May Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer.

This article was submitted to Infectious Diseases, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. Received Jan 25; Accepted Apr The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author s or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice.

No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. See commentary " Commentary: Retrospective and prospective perspectives on zoonotic brucellosis " in volume 10, This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Members of the genus Brucella are pathogenic bacteria exceedingly well adapted to their hosts. Keywords: brucellosis, Brucella , zoonosis, Brucella -vaccines, domestication. Open in a separate window. Conflict of Interest Statement The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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