About the Authors

Gerrit Burger

Contributed equally to this work with: Gerrit Burger, Rafiou Adamou

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

gerrit.burger@online.de (GB); matthew.mccall@radboudumc.nl (MBBM)

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Rafiou Adamou

Contributed equally to this work with: Gerrit Burger, Rafiou Adamou

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

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

Ruth Kreuzmair

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Wilfrid Ndzebe Ndoumba

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Implementation Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner sites Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany

Dorothea Ekoka Mbassi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, German Center for Infection Research, Partner sites Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Anne Marie Nkoma Mouima

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Carole Mamgno Tabopda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Roukoyath Moyoriola Adegnika

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ayong More

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Dearie Glory Okwu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Implementation Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner sites Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany

Lia-Betty Dimessa Mbadinga

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Carlos Lamsfus Calle

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Luzia Veletzky

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wolfram Gottfried Metzger

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Benjamin Mordmüller

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Michael Ramharter

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, German Center for Infection Research, Partner sites Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Implementation Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner sites Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany

Ayola Akim Adegnika

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner site Tübingen, Tübingen Germany

Rella Zoleko-Manego

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, German Center for Infection Research, Partner sites Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Matthew B. B. McCall

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

gerrit.burger@online.de (GB); matthew.mccall@radboudumc.nl (MBBM)

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AAA is a member of the CANTAM (EDCTP-RegNet2015-1045) network. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.