About the Authors

Patrick Mukadi Kakoni

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

Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki, Japan

Yannick Munyeku Bazitama

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

Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jean Raphael Nepomuceno

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Elisabeth Pukuta-Simbu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Francois Kawhata Mawika

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Gracia Kashitu Mujinga

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Luigi Palla

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Tokyo, Japan

Steve Ahuka-Mundeke

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nobuo Koizumi

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy

Yoshinao Kubo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki, Japan

Koya Ariyoshi

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

Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki, Japan

Chris Smith

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

Christopher.smith@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.