About the Authors

Linda Djune-Yemeli

Contributed equally to this work with: Linda Djune-Yemeli, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

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

Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Molecular Diagnosis Research Group, Biotechnology Centre-University of Yaoundé I (BTC-UY-I), Yaoundé, Cameroon

Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

Contributed equally to this work with: Linda Djune-Yemeli, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

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

Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Parasitology and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Cédric G. Lenou-Nanga

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

Cyrille Donfo-Azafack

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

André Domche

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Parasitology and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Floribert Fossuo-Thotchum

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

Yannick Niamsi-Emalio

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

Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

Francine Ntoumi

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

Affiliations Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Joseph Kamgno

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

kamgno@crfilmt.org

Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.