| long-term monitoring of microsporidia, cryptosporidium and giardia infections in western lowland gorillas (gorilla gorilla gorilla) at different stages of habituation in dzanga sangha protected areas, central african republic. | infectious diseases pose one of the greatest threats to endangered species, and a risk of gastrointestinal parasite transmission from humans to wildlife has always been considered as a major concern of tourism. increased anthropogenic impact on primate populations may result in general changes in communities of their parasites, and also in a direct exchange of parasites between humans and primates. | 2013 | 23951255 |
| strongyloides infections of humans and great apes in dzanga-sangha protected areas, central african republic and in degraded forest fragments in bulindi, uganda. | dna sequence analysis was carried out on strongyloides spp. larvae obtained from fecal samples of local humans, a wild western lowland gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla) and a central chimpanzee (pan troglodytes troglodytes) inhabiting dzanga-sangha protected areas (dspa), central african republic, and eastern chimpanzees (pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) living in degraded forest fragments on farmland in bulindi, uganda. from humans, both strongyloides fuelleborni and strongyloides stercoralis we ... | 2016 | 27180094 |
| host specificity and basic ecology of mammomonogamus (nematoda, syngamidae) from lowland gorillas and forest elephants in central african republic. | syngamid strongylids of the genus mammomonogamus undoubtedly belong among the least known nematodes with apparent zoonotic potential and the real diversity of the genus remains hard to evaluate without extensive molecular data. eggs of mammomonogamus sp. are frequently found in feces of african forest elephants (loxodonta cyclotis) and western lowland gorillas (gorilla gorilla gorilla) in dzanga-sangha protected areas. using sedimentation-based coproscopic techniques, we found the eggs of mammom ... | 2017 | 28274296 |
| effect of antibiotic treatment on the gastrointestinal microbiome of free-ranging western lowland gorillas (gorilla g. gorilla). | the mammalian gastrointestinal (gi) microbiome, which plays indispensable roles in host nutrition and health, is affected by numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors. among them, antibiotic (atb) treatment is reported to have a significant effect on gi microbiome composition in humans and other animals. however, the impact of atbs on the gi microbiome of free-ranging or even captive great apes remains poorly characterized. here, we investigated the effect of cephalosporin treatment (delivered by ... | 2016 | 26984253 |
| gut microbiome composition and metabolomic profiles of wild western lowland gorillas (gorilla gorilla gorilla) reflect host ecology. | the metabolic activities of gut microbes significantly influence host physiology; thus, characterizing the forces that modulate this micro-ecosystem is key to understanding mammalian biology and fitness. to investigate the gut microbiome of wild primates and determine how these microbial communities respond to the host's external environment, we characterized faecal bacterial communities and, for the first time, gut metabolomes of four wild lowland gorilla groups in the dzanga-sangha protected a ... | 2015 | 25846719 |
| ecology of malaria infections in western lowland gorillas inhabiting dzanga sangha protected areas, central african republic. | african great apes are susceptible to infections with several species of plasmodium, including the predecessor of plasmodium falciparum. little is known about the ecology of these pathogens in gorillas. a total of 131 gorilla fecal samples were collected from dzanga-sangha protected areas to study the diversity and prevalence of plasmodium species. the effects of sex and age as factors influencing levels of infection with plasmodium in habituated gorilla groups were assessed. ninety-five human b ... | 2015 | 25736484 |
| no impact of strongylid infections on the detection of plasmodium spp. in faeces of western lowland gorillas and eastern chimpanzees. | although a high genetic diversity of plasmodium spp. circulating in great apes has been revealed recently due to non-invasive methods enabling detection in faecal samples, little is known about the actual mechanisms underlying the presence of plasmodium dna in faeces. great apes are commonly infected by strongylid nematodes, including hookworms, which cause intestinal bleeding. the impact of strongylid infections on the detection of plasmodium dna in faeces was assessed in wild, western, lowland ... | 2017 | 28446233 |