About the Authors

Yolanda Kathrin Mueller

yolanda.muller@geneva.msf.org

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Fabienne Nackers

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Khalid A. Ahmed

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jean-Claude Djoumessi

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Rahma Eltigani

Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

Himida Ali Gorashi

Affiliation Community Medicine Department, University of Gedaref, Gedaref, Sudan

Omer Hammam

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Koert Ritmeijer

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland

Niven Salih

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Dagemlidet Worku

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jean-François Etard

Affiliations Epicentre, Paris, France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France

François Chappuis

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YKM FN KAA MB JCD RE HAG KR DW JFE FC. Performed the experiments: YKM FN OH NS. Analyzed the data: YKM. Wrote the paper: YKM.