About the Authors

Bieke Tack

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

btack@itg.be

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Daniel Vita

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

Affiliation Hôpital Général de Référence Saint Luc de Kisantu, Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

José Nketo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zone de Santé Kisantu, Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Naomie Wasolua

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hôpital Général de Référence Saint Luc de Kisantu, Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nathalie Ndengila

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hôpital Général de Référence Saint Luc de Kisantu, Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Natacha Herssens

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Emmanuel Ntangu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hôpital Général de Référence Saint Luc de Kisantu, Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Grace Kasidiko

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hôpital Général de Référence Saint Luc de Kisantu, Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Gaëlle Nkoji-Tunda

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Medical Biology, University Teaching Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Marie-France Phoba

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Medical Biology, University Teaching Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Justin Im

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyon Jin Jeon

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Florian Marks

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Madagascar Institute for Vaccine Research, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Jaan Toelen

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

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Octavie Lunguya

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Medical Biology, University Teaching Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jan Jacobs

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

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.