GenomicsPLoS neglected tropical diseasesPeer-reviewed
Population genomic evidence that human and animal infections in Africa come from the same populations of Dracunculus medinensis
Caroline Durrant, Elizabeth A. Thiele, Nancy E. Holroyd…·James Anthony Cotton
The paper uses genomic data from Guinea worm infections in humans and dogs to show they originate from the same population, indicating transmission between species and a population bottleneck.