About the Authors

Lisette Mbuyi-Kalonji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lisettekalonji@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Clinical Biology, Microbiology Unit, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Barbara Barbé

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

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

Gaëlle Nkoji

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biology, Microbiology Unit, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Joule Madinga

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Institute of Health and Society, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Clémentine Roucher

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

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

Sylvie Linsuke

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Marie Hermy

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Anne-Sophie Heroes

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Wesley Mattheus

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Bacterial Diseases, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

Katja Polman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Health Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Pascal Lutumba

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Marie-France Phoba

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Clinical Biology, Microbiology Unit, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Octavie Lunguya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Clinical Biology, Microbiology Unit, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jan Jacobs

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.