About the Authors

Octavie Lunguya

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Veerle Lejon

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD INTERTRYP, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France

Marie-France Phoba

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sophie Bertrand

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Raymond Vanhoof

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Youri Glupczynski

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteria, Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium

Jan Verhaegen

Affiliation University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jan Jacobs

vlejon@itg.be

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflicting interests in relation to this work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OL JV JJMT JJ. Performed the experiments: OL VL MFP YG SB RV. Analyzed the data: OL VL SB RV JV JJ YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OL MFP SB RV YG JV JJMT JJ. Wrote the paper: OL VL JJ.