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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/23:00575559 RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132946

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011499" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011499</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011499" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pntd.0011499</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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 exhibited higher strongylid diversity than humans. Necator and Oesophagostomum were the most prevalent genera, and we commonly observed mixed infections of more than one strongylid species. Human strongylid communities were dominated by the human hookworm N. americanus, while great apes were mainly infected with N. gorillae, O. stephanostomum and trichostrongylids. We were also able to detect rare strongylid taxa (such as Ancylostoma and Ternidens). We detected eight ASVs shared between humans and great apes (four N. americanus variants, two N. gorillae variants, one O. stephanostomum type I and one Trichostrongylus sp. type II variant). Our results show that knowledge of strongylid communities in primates, including humans, is still limited. Sharing the same habitat, especially outside protected areas (where access to the forest is not restricted), can enable mutual parasite exchange and can even override host phylogeny or conserved patterns. Such studies are critical for assessing the threats posed to all hosts by increasing human-wildlife spatial overlap. In this study, the term contact refers to physical contact, while spatial overlap refers to environmental contact.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

ISSN

1935-2735

e-ISSN

1935-2735

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

AUG

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

č. 8

UT code for WoS article

001093879700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85170080044