Human-Borne Pathogens: Are They Threatening Wild Great Ape Populations?

ABSTRACT: Climate change and anthropic activities are the two main factors explaining wild great ape habitat reduction and population decline. The extent to which human-borne infectious diseases are contributing to this trend is still poorly understood. This is due to insufficient or fragmented knowledge on the abundance and distribution of current wild great ape populations, the difficulty obtaining optimal biological samples for diagnostic testing, and the scarcity of pathogen typing data of sufficient quality. This review summarises current information on the most clinically relevant pathogens of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal nature for which transmission from humans to wild great apes is suspected. After appraising the robustness of available epidemiological and/or molecular typing evi

SUBMITTER: Koster PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9323791 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature