About the Authors

Adebola Tolulope Olayinka

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Tolulope Olayinka, Josephine Bourner

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Josephine Bourner

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Tolulope Olayinka, Josephine Bourner

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

josephine.bourner@ndm.ox.ac.uk

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

George O. Akpede

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo, Nigeria

Joseph Okoeguale

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo, Nigeria

Chukwuyem Abejegah

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Nnennaya A. Ajayi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria

Christian Akude

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria

Oluwafemi Ayodeji

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Daniel G. Bausch

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Hilde de Clerck

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

Chioma Dan-Nwafor

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Jake Dunning

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Cyril Erameh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo, Nigeria

Justus Ndulue Eze

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria

Pierre Formenty

Roles Investigation

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Annelies Gillesen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sulaiman Jalloh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ola During Children’s Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Marie Jaspard

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), Dakar, Senegal, Institut Nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm), Infectious Diseases in Low Income Contries, Unit 1219, Bordeaux, France

Tolulope Jegede

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Jacob Maikere

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

Denis Malvy

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), Dakar, Senegal, Institut Nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm), Infectious Diseases in Low Income Contries, Unit 1219, Bordeaux, France

Ephraim Ogbaini-Emovon

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo, Nigeria

Olalekan Ezekial Ojo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Sylvanus Okogbenin

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo, Nigeria

Kwame O’Neill

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Maria-Lauretta Orji

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria

Sampson Omagbemi Owhin

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Michael Ramharter

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Robert J. Samuels

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone

Nathan Shehu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

Laura Merson

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alex Paddy Salam

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nzelle Delphine Kayem

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Peter Horby

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Chikwe Ihekweazu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Piero Olliaro

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

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.