About the Authors
- Patrick Mitashi
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Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine, Kinshasa University, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Epco Hasker
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi
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Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Kinshasa University, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Pati Patient Pyana
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Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Veerle Lejon
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Wim Van der Veken
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Affiliation Belgian Development Agency, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Pascal Lutumba
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Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Kinshasa University, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Philippe Büscher
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Marleen Boelaert
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Stijn Deborggraeve
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* E-mail: sdeborggraeve@itg.be
Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: FIND, the sponsor of the development of the LAMP kit, made useful suggestions on the technical protocol and provided the required kits and reagents for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PM EH PL PB MB SD. Performed the experiments: PM SD. Analyzed the data: PM EH MB PB SD DMN PPP VL WVdV PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM EH MB PB SD DMN PPP VL WVdV PL. Wrote the paper: PM EH PB VL MB SD.