About the Authors

Epco Hasker

Contributed equally to this work with: Epco Hasker, Jean Kwete

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium

Jean Kwete

Contributed equally to this work with: Epco Hasker, Jean Kwete

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Raquel Inocencio da Luz

rinocencio@itg.be

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium

Alain Mpanya

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nicolas Bebronne

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

Jacquies Makabuza

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Yves Claeys

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium

Jérémie Ilunga

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Veerle Lejon

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Department of Parasitology, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Philippe Büscher

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

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium

Erick Mwamba Miaka

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.