Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon1

Matsuura, Naoki; Takenoshita, Yuji; Yamagiwa, Juichi

doi:10.4000/primatologie.1775

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“…In the forest of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park (MDNP), Gabon, ecotourism is being introduced due to the human habituation of groups of western lowland gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla ) [ 40 , 41 ]. The protection of human and animal populations, especially great apes, from mutual transmission of epidemics is therefore important [ 42 ].…”

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Phylogenetic Groups, Pathotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli Isolated from Western Lowland Gorilla Faeces (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park (MDNP)

Yinda

Onanga

Nguema³

et al. 2022

Pathogens

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(1) Background: Terrestrial mammals in protected areas have been identified as a potential source of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. Studies on antimicrobial resistance in gorillas have already been conducted. Thus, this study aimed to describe the phylogroups, pathotypes and prevalence of antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from western lowland gorilla’s faeces living in MDNP. (2) Materials and Methods: Ninety-six faecal samples were collected from western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) during daily monitoring in the MDNP. Sixty-four E. coli isolates were obtained and screened for phylogenetic and pathotype group genes by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) after DNA extraction. In addition, antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by the disk diffusion method on Mueller Hinton agar. (3) Results: Sixty-four (64%) isolates of E. coli were obtained from samples. A high level of resistance to the beta-lactam family, a moderate rate for fluoroquinolone and a low rate for aminoglycoside was obtained. All E. coli isolates were positive in phylogroup PCR with a predominance of A (69% ± 11.36%), followed by B2 (20% ± 19.89%) and B1 (10% ± 8.90%) and low prevalence for D (1% ± 3.04%). In addition, twenty E. coli isolates (31%) were positive for pathotype PCR, such as EPEC (85% ± 10.82%) and EPEC/EHEC (15% ± 5.18%) that were obtained in this study. The majority of these MDR E. coli (DECs) belonged to phylogenetic group A, followed by MDR E. coli (DECs) belonging to group B2. (4) Conclusion: This study is the first description of MDR E. coli (DECs) assigned to phylogroup A in western lowland gorillas from the MDNP in Gabon. Thus, wild gorillas in MDNP could be considered as asymptomatic carriers of potential pathogenic MDR E. coli (DECs) that may present a potential risk to human health.

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Phylogenetic Groups, Pathotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli Isolated from Western Lowland Gorilla Faeces (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park (MDNP)

Yinda

Onanga

Nguema³

et al. 2022

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“…Another reason for developing information tourism products in collaboration with local people is that the collaboration might enhance local people's understanding of nature and its conservation, and result in their proactive contribution to conservation activities. The majority of villagers, particularly the young ones, used to move around the country as employees of large companies for timber exploitation or patrolling (Matsuura et al 2013). Therefore, they did not develop a deep knowledge of the local forest at the beginning of the projects.…”

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From vision to narrative: A trial of information-based gorilla tourism in the Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon

Takenoshita

2015

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African great apes are threatened with extinction by an increasing number of human activities. Along with an increase in the habitat overlap used by local people and great apes, human-great ape conflicts have become intense. Many protected areas have recently been established for the conservation of great apes and other biodiversity in Africa, but difficulties have arisen while adopting the "fences-and-fines" management approach. Tourism could provide an alternative approach for the management of protected areas as a sustainable use of biodiversity, and an alternative source of income for local communities and governments of countries with this type of habitat. However, with few exceptions, great ape tourism projects are faced with challenges. Moreover, great ape tourism increases the risks of disease transmission between humans and great apes. Nevertheless, great apes, as charismatic flagship species, are essential for successful wildlife tourism. In this paper, I reconsider the current style of great ape tourism that depends on close visual contact between tourists and great apes. Then, I propose a novel style of great ape tourism. It is based on using narratives about great apes generated by local community members as the leading tour product, and visual contact as the supplementary product. This approach might 1) reduce the negative effects of tourism on great apes; and 2) enhance proactive commitment by community members, and lead to a fair revenue sharing system.

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“…Difficulties in contamination control in addition to temperature control for media preservation before use and after colony development were the major problems we experienced. In this report, we show the techniques for so-called "field-bacteriology" developed in the past 4 years in a SATREPS project (Yamagiwa 2006, Matsuura et al 2013 to study the intestinal bacteria of wild gorillas and local workers, particularly antibiotic resistant bacteria. We theorize antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be good indicators for transmission from humans to wild animals if we isolate the same resistant bacteria at strain level from both sources.…”

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“…In the forest of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park (MDNP), Gabon, eco-tourism will be introduced in the near future as a result of human habituation of groups of west lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) (Yamagiwa 2006, Matsuura et al 2013. It would be important to protect both humans and wild animals, great apes in particular, from mutual transmission of epidemics (Dörnath Aguirre Alvarez and Völlm, 2004).…”

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Bacteria culturing and isolation under field conditions of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon, and preliminary survey on bacteria carrying antibiotic resistance genes

Nguema

Tsuchida

Ushida

2015

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Culturing the intestinal bacteria of wild animals is a difficult task under field conditions, although isolation and characterization of bacteria are absolutely necessary to evaluate the transmission of bacteria from human to animal or vice versa. We have developed a protocol for intestinal bacteria culturing from feces of wild animals such as gorillas in Moukalaba-Doudou National Park in Gabon, where no laboratory settings were available. The prevalence of resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae isolates estimated by real time PCR array was higher for aminoglycosides resistance, followed by tetracycline resistance, except for possible naturally occurring β-lactam resistance. The detection level of resistance genes was higher for isolates from humans than those from gorillas. Occasional monitoring of this prevalence may help to measure the intensity of introduction of humanborne bacteria to wildlife.

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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon1

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Phylogenetic Groups, Pathotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli Isolated from Western Lowland Gorilla Faeces (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park (MDNP)

Phylogenetic Groups, Pathotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli Isolated from Western Lowland Gorilla Faeces (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park (MDNP)

From vision to narrative: A trial of information-based gorilla tourism in the Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon

Bacteria culturing and isolation under field conditions of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon, and preliminary survey on bacteria carrying antibiotic resistance genes

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