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10.9 %Cytomegalovirus retinitis accounted for 10.9% of the causes of visual impairment.

Gaboncytomegalovirus retinitis · visual impairmentpublished 2023Le Mali medicalPubMeddocument of 6 observations

85.8 %Among 176 mosquitoes collected, Anopheles gambiae sensu lato was predominant at 85.8%.

Gabonpaludismeobserved June to September 2022published 2024Parasites & vectorseurope_pmcdocument of 12 observations

6.3 %The seroprevalence of antibodies to HIV among pregnant women in Gabon was 6.3% in 2005.

GabonVIH/sidaobserved 2005published 2012BMC Infectious DiseasesOpenAlexdocument of 14 observationsDOI 10.1186/1471-2334-12-64

64 %The FC27/msp-2 allelic family was predominant in rural areas (64%) in the Republic of Congo during a cross-sectional survey conducted from March to September 2021.

Gabonpaludismeobserved March to September 2021published 2023Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland)europe_pmcdocument of 8 observationsDOI 10.3390/pathogens12050742

100 %Treatment with clindamycin alone achieved a day 28 cure rate of 100% for asexual Plasmodium falciparum parasites.

Gabonpaludismeobserved day 28published 2004The Journal of infectious diseaseseurope_pmcdocument of 10 observationsDOI 10.1086/381785

Six months after 3 rounds of praziquantel treatment, frequencies of naive B cells were increased and memory B cell frequencies were decreased in schistosome-infected children.

Gabonschistosomiaseobserved 6-months after 3 rounds of praziquantel treatmentpublished 2013PLoS neglected tropical diseaseseurope_pmcdocument of 2 observations

16 minutesThe time to diagnosis using conventional fluorescence microscopy was 16 minutes in patients with fever admitted to the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon.

Gabonpaludismepublished 2011Malaria journaleurope_pmcdocument of 8 observationsDOI 10.1186/1475-2875-10-194

4.1 %The prevalence of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection was 4.1% in urban settings.

Gabonpaludismeobserved 2023published 2025Malaria journaleurope_pmcdocument of 3 observations

39.7 %La prévalence de Plasmodium spp. était de 39,7 % chez les enfants âgés de 1 à 4 ans.

GabonpaludismeHAL · Unilimdocument of 81 observations

16 daysThe median age at symptom onset in neonates with malaria was 16 days.

Gabonpaludismepublished 2025BMC infectious diseasesPubMeddocument of 17 observations

3 %Dizygotic twinning frequency in The Gambia is up to 3% of live births.

Gabondizygotic twinningpublished 2012Annals of human geneticseurope_pmcDOI 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2012.00723.x

90 %More than 80% of respondents knew that COVID-19 could be transmitted by kissing an infected person (90.0%).

GabonCOVID-19published 2021Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South-east Gabon.europe_pmcdocument of 11 observationsDOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-299801/v1

0.65 odds_ratioCombining data from studies in hyper-/holo-endemic settings (Gambia, Malawi, Gabon), the odds ratio (OR) for placental malaria in blood group O multiparae was 0.65 (95% CI 0.44–0.96).

Gabon · Malawipaludismepublished 2011Malaria journaleurope_pmcdocument of 9 observationsDOI 10.1186/1475-2875-10-101

1 samplesOne dog sample tested positive for caliciviruses in northeastern Gabon.

Gaboncalicivirusespublished 2023Animals : an open access journal from MDPIeurope_pmcdocument of 7 observations

64.04 %64.04% of diabetic children and adolescents hospitalised at CHUL had health insurance.

Gabondiabète (non précisé)observed January 2020 to December 2023published 2025The Pan African medical journalPubMeddocument of 10 observations

39.1 °CThe infant developed a fever of 39.1°C on day 4.

Gabonrougeolepublished 2025International Journal of Infectious DiseasesOpenAlexdocument of 2 observationsDOI 10.1016/j.ijid.2025.108215

All neonates with malaria survived.

Gabonpaludismepublished 2025BMC infectious diseasesPubMeddocument of 17 observations

18.8 %The population attributable fraction of spleen volume ≤ 150 cm³ associated with Loa loa microfilaremia was 18.8%.

GabonloaseHAL · Unilimdocument of 153 observations

83 casesAmong 1161 suspected cases of COVID-19 in Gabon, 83 were confirmed cases.

GabonCOVID-19published 2022Epidemiology of first cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, from March to April 2020, in Gaboneurope_pmcdocument of 2 observations

6 casesSix of the fifteen infants harbored enteric viruses (rotavirus, enterovirus and adenovirus) in fecal samples.

Gabonadenovirus · enteric viruses · enterovirus · rotaviruspublished 2017PLoS ONEOpenAlexdocument of 2 observationsDOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0185569

58 %La méthode abortive utilisée était principalement le comprimé de misoprostol dans 58,0 % des cas d’avortement clandestin au Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Libreville entre 2014 et 2018.

Gabonavortement clandestinobserved 2014 à 2018published 2021Revue de médecine et de pharmacieOpenAlexdocument of 24 observations

4 %Enteroinvasive E. coli accounted for 4.0% of bacterial pathogens causing diarrhoea in children aged 0–5 years in public hospitals in Franceville, Gabon.

Gabondiarrhéepublished 2024Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)europe_pmcdocument of 9 observations

44.4 %Of all methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates (n = 9), 44.4% were related to the USA300 clone.

Gabonmethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus · USA300 clonepublished 2014Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of europe_pmcdocument of 5 observationsDOI 10.1111/1469-0691.12417

HbSS phenotype was more prevalent in children between 5 and 9 years and between 10 and 14 years of age.

GabondrépanocytoseHAL · Unilimdocument of 71 observations

631 parasites/μLLa densité médiane du parasite du paludisme à forme asexuée chez les enfants uniquement positifs pour P. falciparum était de 631 parasites/μL dans le groupe non-APOE Ɛ4, avec un intervalle interquartile de [214–2227].

GabonpaludismeHAL · Unilimdocument of 81 observations