About the Authors

Fabienne Nackers

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabienne Nackers, Yolanda Kathrin Mueller

Fabienne.Nackers@Brussels.msf.org

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Yolanda Kathrin Mueller

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabienne Nackers, Yolanda Kathrin Mueller

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Niven Salih

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Geneva, Khartoum, Sudan

Mousab Siddig Elhag

Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health, Neglected Tropical Diseases Division, Khartoum, Sudan

Mobarak Elnour Elbadawi

Affiliation State Ministry of Health, Gedaref, Sudan

Omer Hammam

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Geneva, Khartoum, Sudan

Ann Mumina

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Geneva, Khartoum, Sudan

Atia Abdalla Atia

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Geneva, Khartoum, Sudan

Jean-François Etard

Affiliations Epicentre, Paris, France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France

Koert Ritmeijer

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

François Chappuis

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva University Hospital, Department of Community Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YKM FN FC JFE KR. Performed the experiments: FN NS AAA OH AM. Analyzed the data: YKM. Wrote the paper: FN YKM. Interpretation of the results:FN YKM NS MSE MEE OH AM AAA JFE KR FC. Revision of the manuscript: FN YKM NS MSE MEE OH AM AAA JFE KR FC. Approval of the final manuscript: FN YKM NS MSE MEE OH AM AAA JFE KR FC. Scientific and technical support: MSE MEE.