About the Authors
- Dieudonne Mumba
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Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Elaine Bohorquez
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jane Messina
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Affiliation Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Victor Kande
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Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Steven M. Taylor
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Antoinette K. Tshefu
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Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Jeremie Muwonga
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Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la SIDA, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Melchior M. Kashamuka
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Michael Emch
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Affiliation Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Richard Tidwell
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Philippe Büscher
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Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Steven R. Meshnick
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* E-mail: meshnick@unc.edu
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SRM ME PB JM VK AKT MMK. Performed the experiments: DM EB PB JM MMK. Analyzed the data: JM SMT ME SRM PB AKT SRM RT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT PB. Wrote the paper: SRM PB ME SMT DM JM.