A REVIEW ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPACT ON PARASITIC DISEASES INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 55, Issue 1, April 2025, Page 47-56 PDF (423.54 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2025.425001 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MONA F. FAHEEM; DOAA I.M. ABOUGALALAH | ||||
| Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Climate change has a significant influence on ecological interactions and processes, including parasitism. Parasites are critical for maintaining ecosystem balance as integral elements of eco logical systems and potential drivers of outbreaks and disease-related mortality. Understanding their sensitivity to changing climatic conditions is therefore essential. This calls for a consolidat ed review of existing knowledge on the subject, along with the development of improved meth ods to predict how parasites will respond to these environmental shifts. In addition to directly af fecting the parasites' dispersive phases in the environment, such as eggs and larvae, indirect ef fects of the changing climate may also affect the larvae, which mostly inhabit intermediate in vertebrate hosts. Parasites, like all living things, have optimal temperature ranges for their es sential processes, and these rates can be directly impacted by climate change. However, the im mediate environment provided by the host offers some protection, partially shielding parasites from external environmental fluctuations. Yet, as environmental changes begin to alter the host's condition, competency, and availability, these shifts inevitably influence the parasites dependent on them. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Parasitic diseases; Climate change; Ecosystem; Diseases; Vector-borne diseases | ||||
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