About the Authors

Gédéon Prince Manouana

Contributed equally to this work with: Gédéon Prince Manouana, Eva Lorenz, Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese, Daniel Eibach, Ayola Akim Adegnika

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

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

Eva Lorenz

Contributed equally to this work with: Gédéon Prince Manouana, Eva Lorenz, Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese, Daniel Eibach, Ayola Akim Adegnika

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

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese

Contributed equally to this work with: Gédéon Prince Manouana, Eva Lorenz, Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese, Daniel Eibach, Ayola Akim Adegnika

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), African partner institution, CERMEL, Gabon

Paul Alvyn Nguema Moure

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné

Oumou Maiga Ascofaré

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Charity Wiafe Akenten

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

John Amuasi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Njari Rakotozandrindrainy

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Antananarivo, Madagascar

Raphael Rakotozandrindrainy

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Antananarivo, Madagascar

Joyce Mbwana

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) & University of Copenhagen, Denmark

John Lusingu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) & University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Natalie Byrne

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), African partner institution, CERMEL, Gabon

Sophia Melhem

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Jeannot Frejus Zinsou

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), African partner institution, CERMEL, Gabon

Roméo Bayodé Adegbite

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), African partner institution, CERMEL, Gabon

Benedikt Hogan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Doris Winter

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Jurgen May

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Peter Gottfried Kremsner

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Steffen Borrmann

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), African partner institution, CERMEL, Gabon

Daniel Eibach

Contributed equally to this work with: Gédéon Prince Manouana, Eva Lorenz, Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese, Daniel Eibach, Ayola Akim Adegnika

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck-Riems, Germany

Ayola Akim Adegnika

Contributed equally to this work with: Gédéon Prince Manouana, Eva Lorenz, Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese, Daniel Eibach, Ayola Akim Adegnika

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

aadegnika@cermel.org

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.