Establishment of an in vitro culture system to study the developmental biology of Onchocerca volvulus with implications for anti-Onchocerca drug discovery and screening

• Narcisse V. T. Gandjui,

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

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Abdel J. Njouendou,

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

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-6160

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• Eric N. Gemeg,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Fanny F. Fombad,

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

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Department of Zoology and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Manuel Ritter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8667-2067

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• Chi A. Kien,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-2028

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• Valerine C. Chunda,

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

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2159-9409

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• Jerome Fru,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Mathias E. Esum,

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

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7648-3641

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• Marc P. Hübner,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Bonn-Cologne partner site, Bonn, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8885-418X

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• Peter A. Enyong,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Achim Hoerauf,

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

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Bonn-Cologne partner site, Bonn, Germany

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• Samuel Wanji

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: swanji@yahoo.fr

  Affiliations Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon, Parasite and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0022-8366

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