About the Authors
- Octavie Lunguya
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Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Veerle Lejon
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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
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Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Sophie Bertrand
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Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
- Raymond Vanhoof
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Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
- Youri Glupczynski
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Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteria, Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium
- Jan Verhaegen
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Affiliation University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
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Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Jan Jacobs
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* E-mail: 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.