High diversity and sharing of strongylid nematodes in humans and great apes co-habiting an unprotected area in Cameroon.

ABSTRACT: Rapid increases in human populations and environmental changes of past decades have led to changes in rates of contact and spatial overlap with wildlife. Together with other historical, social and environmental processes, this has significantly contributed to pathogen transmission in both directions, especially between humans and non-human primates, whose close phylogenetic relationship facilitates cross-infections. Using high-throughput amplicon sequencing, we studied strongylid communities in sympatric western lowland gorillas, central chimpanzees and humans co-occurring in an unprotected area in the northern periphery of the Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon. At the genus level, we classified 65 strongylid ITS-2 amplicon sequencing variants (ASVs) in humans and great apes. Great apes exhibit

SUBMITTER: Ilik V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484444 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature