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Volume 32, Number 3—March 2026

Research

Strongyloides Genetic Diversity among Humans, Dogs, and Nonhuman Primates, Central African Republic, 2016–2022

Eva Nosková, Vladislav Ilík, Frédéric Stéphane Singa Niatou, Laurent Dumas, Terence Fuh, Jean-Francais Dicky, Terézia Kurucová, Vojtech Baláž, Klára Judita Petrželková, and Barbora PafčoComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (E. Nosková, V. Ilík, T. Kurucová); Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Brno (E. Nosková, V. Ilík, K.J. Petrželková, B. Pafčo); WWF Central African Republic Programme Office, Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Bangui, Central African Republic (F.S. Singa Niatou, T. Fuh); Toulouse National School of Veterinarians, Toulouse, France (L. Dumas); University of Veterinary Sciences, Brno (V. Baláž)

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Figure 1

Location of study site in analysis of Strongyloides genetic diversity among humans, dogs, and nonhuman primates, Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic, 2016–2022. Inset shows location of Central African Republic in Africa. Figure adapted and adjusted from Hasegawa et al. (18).

Figure 1. Location of study site in analysis of Strongyloides genetic diversity among humans, dogs, and nonhuman primates, Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic, 2016–2022. Inset shows location of Central African Republic in Africa. Figure adapted and adjusted from Hasegawa et al. (18).

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