About the Authors

Yoanne D. Mouwenda

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

Y.D.Mouwenda@lumc.nl

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

Madeleine E. Betouke Ongwe

Contributed equally to this work with: Madeleine E. Betouke Ongwe, Friederike Sonnet

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (IRET- CENAREST), Libreville, Gabon

Friederike Sonnet

Contributed equally to this work with: Madeleine E. Betouke Ongwe, Friederike Sonnet

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

Koen A. Stam

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

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

Lucja A. Labuda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

Sophie De Vries

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Martin P. Grobusch

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

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Frejus J. Zinsou

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Yabo J. Honkpehedji

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Jean-Claude Dejon Agobe

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

David J. Diemert

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Remko van Leeuwen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Global Development (AIGHD), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Maria E. Bottazzi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter G. Kremsner

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Tübingen, Germany

Jeffrey M. Bethony

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Simon P. Jochems

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

Ayola A. Adegnika

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Tübingen, Germany

Marguerite Massinga Loembe

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon

Maria Yazdanbakhsh

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

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

no authors have competing interests.