Retraction: Mansonella, including a Potential New Species, as Common Parasites in Children in Gabon

cerns about compliance with the PLOS Human Subjects Research policy.The Materials and Methods section in [1] reports that the study involved blood samples obtained between 2011 and 2014 from febrile and afebrile children in Gabon, as well as blood samples previously collected in the Republics of Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal.The ethics approval statement reported in this article refers to agreements N°00370/MSP/CABMD and N°0023/2013/SG/CNE for the samples collected in Gabon, and N°86/MSLS/CNERN-dkn and N°00.87 MSP/DS/CNERS for the samples collected from the Republics of Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal respectively.PLOS notes that these ethics approval reference numbers have also been reported in multiple other publications (S1 File) despite there appearing to be major differences in the aims and objectives, populations, locations, methodologies, and types of samples described in these studies.A representative of the Aix-Marseille Université Ethics Committee stated that the study complied with applicable legislation and ethical standards, and that citation of the same ethics approval number in several publications complies with international ethics standards when the opinion leads to several discoveries or lines of research justifying separate publications.The representative provided the following Ethics