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Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025

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Zoonotic Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections among Humans, Gabon

Huan Zhao, Polydor Ngoy Mutombo, Rodrigue Mintsa-Nguema, Dieudonné Nkoghe, Julienne Atsame, Matthew Watts, Catherine Gordon, and Richard S. BradburyComments to Author 
Author affiliation: James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (H. Zhao, R.S. Bradbury); National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia (P.N. Mutombo); Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (P.N. Mutombo); National Centre for Scientific and Technological Research of Gabon, Libreville, Gabon (R. Mintsa-Nguema); Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Parasitaires, Ministère de la Santé, Libreville (D. Nkoghe, J. Atsame); Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia (M. Watts); University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (M. Watts); University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (C. Gordon); QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane (C. Gordon)

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Figure 1

Light microscopy images of soil-transmitted helminths from human stool samples, Gabon. A, B) Hookworm eggs; scale bars indicate 25 µm. C) Strongyloides spp. eggs; scale bar indicates 25 µm. D) Strongyloides spp. larvae; scale bar indicates 50 µm. Helminths were detected by using the formalin ethyl acetate sedimentation method. Molecular analysis of ethanol-preserved stool sample aliquots from the same patients indicated Necator americanus (A), N. gorillae (B), Strongyloides fuelleborni fuelleborni (C), and S. stercoralis (D).

Figure 1. Light microscopy images of soil-transmitted helminths from human stool samples, Gabon. A, B) Hookworm eggs; scale bars indicate 25 µm. C) Strongyloides spp. eggs; scale bar indicates 25 µm. D) Strongyloides spp. larvae; scale bar indicates 50 µm. Helminths were detected by using the formalin ethyl acetate sedimentation method. Molecular analysis of ethanol-preserved stool sample aliquots from the same patients indicated Necator americanus (A), N. gorillae (B), Strongyloides fuelleborni fuelleborni (C), and S. stercoralis (D).

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