About the Authors

Augustin Balekouzou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ping Yin

pingyin2000@126.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Henok Kessete Afewerky

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Cavin Bekolo

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Centre Medical d’Arrondissement de Bare, Nkongsamba, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Christian Maucler Pamatika

Affiliation Hospital Laboratory Friendship of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Sylvain Wilfrid Nambei

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Marceline Djeintote

Affiliation National Laboratory of Clinical Biology and Public Health, Bangui, Central African Republic

Antoine Doui Doumgba

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Christian Diamont Mossoro-Kpinde

Affiliation National Laboratory of Clinical Biology and Public Health, Bangui, Central African Republic

Chang Shu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Minghui Yin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zhen Fu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Tingting Qing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Mingming Yan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jianyuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shaojun Chen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Hongyu Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zhongyu Xu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan, China

Boniface Koffi

Affiliation National Laboratory of Clinical Biology and Public Health, Bangui, Central African Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AB. Data curation: AB CS MHY. Formal analysis: TQ CS MMY HL ZX. Investigation: AB CMP MD. Methodology: AB. Project administration: AB. Resources: AB MD. Software: AB ZF SC JZ. Supervision: AB PY BK. Validation: HKA SWN ADD CDMK. Visualization: AB PY. Writing – original draft: AB PY. Writing – review & editing: HKA CB SWN ADD BK.