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Designing probiotic therapies with broad-spectrum activity against a wildlife pathogen
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Harrison probiotics Frontiers MIcro '20.pdf (4.98 MB)
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Author(s)
Harrison, Xavier A
Sewell, Thomas
Fisher, Matthew
Antwis, Rachael E
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Host-associated microbes form an important component of immunity that protect against infection by pathogens. Treating wild individuals with these protective microbes, known as probiotics, can reduce rates of infection and disease in both wild and captive settings. However, the utility of probiotics for tackling wildlife disease requires that they offer consistent protection across the broad genomic variation of the pathogen that hosts can encounter in natural settings. Here we develop multi-isolate probiotic consortia with the aim of effecting broad-spectrum inhibition of growth of the lethal amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) when tested against nine Bd isolates from two distinct lineages. Though we achieved strong growth inhibition between 70 and 100% for seven Bd isolates, two isolates appeared consistently resistant to inhibition, irrespective of probiotic strategy employed. We found no evidence that genomic relatedness of the chytrid predicted similarity of inhibition scores, nor that increasing the genetic diversity of the bacterial consortia could offer stronger inhibition of pathogen growth, even for the two resistant isolates. Our findings have important consequences for the application of probiotics to mitigate wildlife diseases in the face of extensive pathogen genomic variation.
Date Issued
2020-01-22
Date Acceptance
2019-12-26
Citation
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020, 10, pp.1-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/76265
URL
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03134/full
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03134
ISSN
1664-302X
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Start Page
1
End Page
11
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Microbiology
Volume
10
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Harrison, Sewell, Fisher and Antwis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) 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.
Sponsor
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Identifier
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03134/full
Grant Number
NE/K014455/1
NE/S000844/1
Subjects
0605 Microbiology
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
3134
Date Publish Online
2020-01-22
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