The environmental drivers of bacterial meningitis epidemics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa

• Serge Mazamay ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sergemazamayiko@gmail.com

  Affiliations Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, MIVEGEC, IRD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-2261

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• Hélène Broutin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MIVEGEC, IRD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Département de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Sénégal, Centre de Recherche en Evolution et Ecologie de la Santé (CREES), Montpellier, France

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• Didier Bompangue,

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

  Affiliations Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chrono-Environnement, UMR CNRS 6249 Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

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• Jean-Jacques Muyembe,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Jean-François Guégan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MIVEGEC, IRD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ASTRE, INRAE, Cirad, Université de Montpellier, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France, oneHEALTH Global Research Programme, FutureEarth programme, Paris, France

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