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, Stephen R. Doyle, Guillaume Sallé, Alan Tracey, Geetha Sankaranarayanan, Magda E. Lotkowska, Hayley M. Bennett, Thomas Huckvale, Zahra Abdellah, Philip Tchindebet Ouakou, Mesfin Wossen, Makoy Samuel Yibi Logora, Cheick Oumar Coulibaly, , 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.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · Nov 30, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics