Background: For the first time in the history of medicine and public health, we observed some clinical
situations where a parasitic infection on a plant infects humans and other animals and vice versa and
is unfamiliar in medicine and plant pathology nor in veterinary medicine. We noted that this is similar
to the kind of situation where diseases from animals are transmissible to humans and versa, but in
this situation, transmission is between plants and humans and vice versa. The medical description we
termed as Phytotic Infections and we copyrighted (LW14008) and trademarked 29680 in Africa, as a
novel medical term. 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 but in phytotic infections, certain
conditions such as immune suppression occur to enhance or trigger trans kingdom transmission while
in zoonotic infections, immune suppression is not a clinical obligation.
Purpose: We detailed clinical cases from patients suffering phytotic infections exhibiting trans-kingdom
transmission of infection from plants to humans and vice versa -a phenomenon that exist and has not
been 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 or
change in habitat due to climate change.
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; A leukaemia patient, diabetes situation and two clinical cases of HIV/AIDs were under studied,
clinically.
Result and Conclusion: A first line generic observation is that without immunosuppression and altered
environmental conditions, phytotic infections in the way defined here, may rarely occur. 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, Phytosic and in plural Phytotics- is defined for the first time a new
phenomenon in medicine orchestrated by change in environmental conditions and immune suppression
in humans and other primates
