About the Authors

Sylvie Bisser

sbisser@hotmail.com

Current address: Institut Pasteur, Cayenne, French Guiana

Affiliation INSERM UMR1094, Institute of Neuroepidemiology and Tropical Neurology, Limoges, France

Crispin Lumbala

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Etienne Nguertoum

Affiliation Institut Centrafricain de la Recherche Agronomique (ICRA), Bangui, Central African Republic

Victor Kande

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Laurence Flevaud

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Operational Centre Barcelona-Athens (OCBA), Barcelona, Spain

Gedeao Vatunga

Affiliation Instituto de Combate e Controlo das Tripanossomiases, Luanda, Angola

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

Philippe Büscher

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

Theophile Josenando

Affiliation Instituto de Combate e Controlo das Tripanossomiases, Luanda, Angola

Paul R. Bessell

Affiliation Epi Interventions Ltd., Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sylvain Biéler

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland

Joseph M. Ndung’u

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

PRB is employed by a commercial company. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBis SBie JMN CL. Performed the experiments: SBis GV TJ CL VK EN LF. Analyzed the data: PRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB. Wrote the paper: SBis PRB SBie JMN MB PB.