About the Authors

Ipos Ngay Lukusa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nick Van Reet

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi

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

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Erick Mwamba Miaka

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Justin Masumu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pati Patient Pyana

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wilfried Mutombo

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Digas Ngolo

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Vincent Kobo

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Felix Akwaso

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Médard Ilunga

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lewis Kaninda

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sylvain Mutanda

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dieudonné Mpoyi Muamba

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA), Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Olaf Valverde Mordt

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Antoine Tarral

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Sandra Rembry

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

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Philippe Büscher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Veerle Lejon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

veerle.lejon@ird.fr

Affiliation Mixed Research Unit 177 Intertryp, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.