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I reanalyzed 46 publicly available shotgun fecal metagenomes from sympatric central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes; n = 18) and western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla; n = 28) in the Goualougo Triangle, Nouabal\u00e9-Ndoki National Park, Republic of the Congo, to test whether host species structures genus-level strongylid community composition and relative read signal. Non-host reads were classified against a custom strongylid-focused database targeting 4 genera repeatedly reported from African apes: Ancylostoma, Necator, Oesophagostomum, and Trichostrongylus. All 4 focal genera were detected in every library under baseline filtering, and multi-genus detection remained robust under increasingly stringent read-count thresholds. However, host species differed strongly in community composition. Chimpanzee libraries had relatively even genus-level profiles, whereas gorilla libraries were consistently Necatordominated. Gorillas also had substantially higher relative strongylid read abundance. The results show that shotgun metagenomic reanalysis can recover host-structured strongylid community signals from wildlife samples and can complement targeted parasitological surveys in conservation and One Health surveillance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1645\/25-102","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,31]],"date-time":"2026-07-31T03:07:08Z","timestamp":1785467228000},"page":"443-450","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Strongylid Coinfections in Sympatric Chimpanzees and Gorillas from the Republic of the Congo Revealed by Fecal Metagenomics"],"prefix":"10.1645","volume":"112","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5752-2131","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Damien M.","family":"O'Halloran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1220","reference":[{"key":"30","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"P. Virtanen, R. Gommers, T. E. 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