About the Authors

Samuel Wanji

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

swanji@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Mathias Eyong Esum

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Abdel Jelil Njouendou

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Amuam Andrew Mbeng

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Patrick W. Chounna Ndongmo

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Raphael Awah Abong

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Jerome Fru

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Fanny F. Fombad

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Gordon Takop Nchanji

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Glory Ngongeh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Narcisse V. Ngandjui

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Peter Ivo Enyong

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

Helen Storey

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostics Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kurt C. Curtis

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kerstin Fischer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Joseph R. Fauver

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Daphne Lew

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Charles W. Goss

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Peter U. Fischer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.