Phytosis-phytoses: An epistemic, novel and emerging concept in public health and one health

Title : Phytosis-phytoses: An epistemic, novel and emerging concept in public health and one health

Abstract:

Background: In this study, we re-coined the medical term phytosis-Phytoses (LW1400) and trademarked 29680 in Africa, as a novel medical term in which a parasitic infection from plants infects humans and the same infection from humans infect plants and other animals vice versa. This is similar but in sharp contrast to a well-known medical concept of Zoonosis in which an infection from an animal infects humans and vice versa. This has not been previously observed with plants, now in our work, we have observed that an infection in plants which infects humans and vice versa is referred to as Phytosis-phytoses.
Purpose: The purpose was to report clinical cases from patients suffering phytosis and to prove that trans-kingdom transmission of infection from plants to humans and vice versa is a phenomenon that exist and yet to be considered in medical studies. In this case, unlike in zoonosis, this infection from plants to humans and vice versa, only occurs with conditions where the human is in an immunosuppressed situation.
Methods: A mixed study methods was employed based on clinical observations, clinical lived experience with patients, bacteriological and mycological laboratory as well as molecular diagnostic tools were employed. Four clinical cases of patients in different immunocompromised situation were carefully studied; Cancer patients (leukemia); diabetes situation and two clinical cases of HIV/AIDs were under studied, clinically.
Result and Conclusion: Without immunosuppression and environmental conditions, phytosis-phytoses, in the way defined here may rarely happen. Previously, Phytosis-phytoses in dictionaries has been defined as an infection of a plant with or a disease caused by parasitic fungus which is aptly referred to as phytopathology, as well as dermatophytosis where a fungus from animals infects humans but hasn’t defined whether, from humans the same fungus can infects plants and other animals. In our study, Phytosis and in plural Phytoses- is defined for the first time a new phenomenon in medicine orchestrated by change in environmental conditions and immune suppression in humans.

Biography:

Professor Dr. Kenneth Yongabi Anchang holds a PhD in Bioenvironmental Engineering from the Adelaide University, South Australia and a PhD (D.Sc) in Public Health and served as an Honorary research fellow in 2013 at the University of Wisconsin Madison, School of Public Health,  where he looked at Toxoplasmosis -Malaria Mouse model at the Knoll’s laboratory. Professor Yongabi is a fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences; fellow of the African Institute for Public Health Professional and a fellow of the Public Health Council of Nigeria, with more than 200 peer reviewed publications, 4 books, more than 10 scholarly book chapters and more than 150 international lectures and key note presentation. Professor Kenneth Yongabi is the recipient of the 2020 Cameroon first Mac Bopelet Gold Medal on his research detailing the Afrocentric public health model. He has three patents and two copyrights, three trade marked scientific products.