Pathogens collections, biobanks and related-data in a One Health legal and ethical perspective

Lajaunie, Claire; Ho, Calvin Wai-Loon

doi:10.1017/s0031182017001986

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“…Vouchered host specimens provide scientific replicability, baselines for temporal and spatial studies, correct taxonomic identification of host species (which may be later revised, e.g., see reference 71), and material for extending research using advanced technologies. Vouchering also integrates an entire community of researchers into the public health sector that otherwise would not typically collaborate (72) and provides critical expertise about the ecology and evolution of host species to support the One Health model for tackling EIDs (73). This proactive approach allows the sharing of data and expertise as well as fostering collaborations to collectively develop novel, creative insights that provide substantial benefits across diverse scientific fields.…”

Section: Importance Of Vouchering In Host-pathogen Studiesmentioning

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Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Thompson

Phelps

Allard

et al. 2021

mBio

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Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), the causal agent of COVID-19, remains unknown. Unfortunately, similar problems exist for other betacoronaviruses, and no vouchered specimens exist to corroborate host species identification for most of these pathogens. This most basic information is critical to the full understanding and mitigation of emerging zoonotic diseases. To overcome this hurdle, we recommend that host-pathogen researchers adopt vouchering practices and collaborate with natural history collections to permanently archive microbiological samples and host specimens. Vouchered specimens and associated samples provide both repeatability and extension to host-pathogen studies, and using them mobilizes a large workforce (i.e., biodiversity scientists) to assist in pandemic preparedness. We review several well-known examples that successfully integrate host-pathogen research with natural history collections (e.g., yellow fever, hantaviruses, helminths). However, vouchering remains an underutilized practice in such studies. Using an online survey, we assessed vouchering practices used by microbiologists (e.g., bacteriologists, parasitologists, virologists) in host-pathogen research. A much greater number of respondents permanently archive microbiological samples than archive host specimens, and less than half of respondents voucher host specimens from which microbiological samples were lethally collected. To foster collaborations between microbiologists and natural history collections, we provide recommendations for integrating vouchering techniques and archiving of microbiological samples into host-pathogen studies. This integrative approach exemplifies the premise underlying One Health initiatives, providing critical infrastructure for addressing related issues ranging from public health to global climate change and the biodiversity crisis.

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Section: Importance Of Vouchering In Host-pathogen Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Thompson

Phelps

Allard

et al. 2021

mBio

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“…This ultimately led to the emergence of biopiracy wherein unauthorized companies in the global North accessed genetic resources and traditional knowledge from the global South for private profit, and, ultimately, these concerns caused genetic resources to become the responsibility of the state [18]. Yet, there are different regulatory frameworks that apply to human, animal, or environmental genetic information [19].…”

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Environmental DNA as Novel Technology: Lessons in Agenda Setting and Framing in News Media

Fitzgerald

Halliday

Heath

2021

Animals

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Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging technology used for understanding ecosystems, environmental change, and stressors. Cellular and extracellular DNA are collected from environmental samples instead of individual wildlife animals, and as such eDNA comes with associated logistical and ethical benefits. It is increasingly being used, yet to date public knowledge and perceptions of eDNA have not been explored. Given that most of the public gathers scientific information from news media sources, this is a logical first place to start. This paper reports on a framing and agenda-setting analysis of news media coverage of eDNA in Canada and the United States from 2000 to 2020. The findings indicate that eDNA is being framed as an emerging and powerful tool, although questions regarding its validity and reliability are raised vis-à-vis identifying the presence of invasive species. Less than half of the news articles analyzed address broader social or ethical issues in relation to eDNA, and the majority focus on the potential financial impacts of eDNA findings on development projects and business interests. The potential ethical advantages of non-lethal sampling methods used via eDNA sampling are not addressed, nor are the potential ethical issues raised by its potential use in bioprospecting, indicating that the current state of agenda setting regarding eDNA in these newspapers is focused on economic impacts, to the exclusion of potential ethical issues. This unfolding news coverage will likely be key to understanding public perceptions of this novel technology.

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“…Finally, and as emphasized above, there are important ethical and legal issues of barcoding and biobanking. These issues are comprehensively addressed by Lajaunie and Ho (2018), who provided guidelines for implementing barcode research in parasitology. None.…”

Section: T H E S P E C I a L I S S U Ementioning

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Advances and challenges in barcoding of microbes, parasites, and their vectors and reservoirs

Morand

2018

Parasitology

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DNA barcoding is now a common tool in parasitology and epidemiology, which require good methods for identification not only of parasites and pathogens but vectors and reservoirs. This special issue presents some advances and challenges in barcoding of microbes, parasites, and their vectors and reservoirs. DNA barcoding found new applications in disease ecology, conservation parasitology, environmental parasitology and in paleoparasitology. New technologies such as next-generation sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight have made it now possible to investigate large samples of specimens. By allowing the investigation of parasites at the interface between environment, biodiversity, animal and human health, barcoding and biobanking have important policy outcomes as well as ethics and legal implications. The special issue 'Advances and challenges in the barcoding of parasites, vectors and reservoirs' illustrates some recent advances and proposes new avenues for research in barcoding in parasitology.

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Pathogens collections, biobanks and related-data in a One Health legal and ethical perspective

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Environmental DNA as Novel Technology: Lessons in Agenda Setting and Framing in News Media

Advances and challenges in barcoding of microbes, parasites, and their vectors and reservoirs

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