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Can Acanthamoeba Harbor Monkeypox Virus?

Acanthamoeba is well known to host a variety of microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and yeast. Given the recent number of cases of monkeypox infection, we speculate that amoebae may be aiding viral transmission to the susceptible hosts. Although there is no confirmatory evidence to s...

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Autores principales: Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah, Muhammad, Jibran Sualeh, Alharbi, Ahmad M., Alfahemi, Hasan, Khan, Naveed Ahmed
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37110278
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040855
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author Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah
Muhammad, Jibran Sualeh
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description Acanthamoeba is well known to host a variety of microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and yeast. Given the recent number of cases of monkeypox infection, we speculate that amoebae may be aiding viral transmission to the susceptible hosts. Although there is no confirmatory evidence to suggest that Acanthamoeba is a host to monkeypox (a double-stranded DNA virus), the recent discovery of mimivirus (another double-stranded DNA virus) from Acanthamoeba, suggests that amoebae may shelter monkeypox virus. Furthermore, given the possible spread of monkeypox virus from animals to humans during an earlier outbreak, which came about after patients came in contact with prairie dogs, it is likely that animals may also act as mixing vessel between ubiquitously distributed Acanthamoeba and monkeypox virus, in addition to the environmental habitat that acts as an interface in complex interactions between diverse microorganisms and the host.
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spelling pubmed-101467562023-04-29 Can Acanthamoeba Harbor Monkeypox Virus? Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Muhammad, Jibran Sualeh Alharbi, Ahmad M. Alfahemi, Hasan Khan, Naveed Ahmed Microorganisms Perspective Acanthamoeba is well known to host a variety of microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and yeast. Given the recent number of cases of monkeypox infection, we speculate that amoebae may be aiding viral transmission to the susceptible hosts. Although there is no confirmatory evidence to suggest that Acanthamoeba is a host to monkeypox (a double-stranded DNA virus), the recent discovery of mimivirus (another double-stranded DNA virus) from Acanthamoeba, suggests that amoebae may shelter monkeypox virus. Furthermore, given the possible spread of monkeypox virus from animals to humans during an earlier outbreak, which came about after patients came in contact with prairie dogs, it is likely that animals may also act as mixing vessel between ubiquitously distributed Acanthamoeba and monkeypox virus, in addition to the environmental habitat that acts as an interface in complex interactions between diverse microorganisms and the host. MDPI 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10146756/ /pubmed/37110278 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040855 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Can Acanthamoeba Harbor Monkeypox Virus?
title_sort can acanthamoeba harbor monkeypox virus?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37110278
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040855
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