Reported healthcare-seeking of loiasis patients and estimation of the associated monetary burden in Gabon: Data from a cross-sectional survey

• Luzia Veletzky ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: luzia.veletzky@meduniwien.ac.at (LV); ramharter@bnitm.de (MR)

  Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8170

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• Veronika Schlicker,

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

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Jennifer Hergeth,

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

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Daniel R. Stelzl,

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

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Urology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Rella Zoleko Manego,

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

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma,

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

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Implementation Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Matthew B. B. McCall,

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

  Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Medical Microbiology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Ayôla A. Adegnika,

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

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

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• Bertrand Lell,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Benjamin Mordmüller,

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

  Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Medical Microbiology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Scherif Adegnika,

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

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Michael Ramharter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: luzia.veletzky@meduniwien.ac.at (LV); ramharter@bnitm.de (MR)

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

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• Christine Budke

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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