About the Authors

Hampate Ba

Contributed equally to this work with: Hampate Ba, Sarah Auburn

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

hampateba2001@yahoo.fr (HB); sarah.auburn@menzies.edu.au (SA); david.conway@lshtm.ac.uk (DJC)

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Nouakchott, Mauritania

Sarah Auburn

Contributed equally to this work with: Hampate Ba, Sarah Auburn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hampateba2001@yahoo.fr (HB); sarah.auburn@menzies.edu.au (SA); david.conway@lshtm.ac.uk (DJC)

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

Christopher G. Jacob

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

Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sonia Goncalves

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

Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Craig W. Duffy

Roles Investigation

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, United Kingdom

Lindsay B. Stewart

Roles Investigation

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, United Kingdom

Ric N. Price

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

Yacine Boubou Deh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Nouakchott, Mauritania

Mamadou Yero Diallo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Nouakchott, Mauritania

Abderahmane Tandia

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Nouakchott, Mauritania

Dominic P. Kwiatkowski

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David J. Conway

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hampateba2001@yahoo.fr (HB); sarah.auburn@menzies.edu.au (SA); david.conway@lshtm.ac.uk (DJC)

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.