Oral microbiome from Bantu and Khoisan groups in Southern Angola
Next-generation sequencing is advancing understanding of the oral microbiome diversity and its impact on health and disease, especially in populations from European ancestry. There is still a substantial gap in knowledge for the rest of the globe, which is richer in lifestyle and subsistence system diversity. In this study, we characterized the oral microbiome in Bantu and Khoisan individuals from a southern Angolan province, where these traditional communities cohabite and explore a particular environment, the arid and semi-arid agro-ecological zone of the extensive Kalahari Basin.
Next-generation sequencing is advancing understanding of the oral microbiome diversity and its impact on health and disease, especially in populations from European ancestry. There is still a substantial gap in knowledge for the rest of the globe, which is richer in lifestyle and subsistence system diversity. In this study, we characterized the oral microbiome in Bantu and Khoisan individuals from a southern Angolan province, where these traditional communities cohabite and explore a particular environment, the arid and semi-arid agro-ecological zone of the extensive Kalahari Basin.
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