About the Authors

Augustin Zoungrana

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso

Boubacar Coulibaly

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso

Ali Sié

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso

Ingeborg Walter-Sack

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine VI, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmaco-epidemiology, Medical School, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

Frank P. Mockenhaupt

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bocar Kouyaté

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso

R. Heiner Schirmer

Affiliation Biochemistry Centre, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

Christina Klose

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometrics and Informatics, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

Ulrich Mansmann

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical School, Ludwig Maximilians University München, Germany

Peter Meissner

Affiliation Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Medical School, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

Olaf Müller

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: olaf.mueller@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Medical School, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UM OM AS IW BK RS PM. Performed the experiments: FM OM AZ BC. Analyzed the data: UM FM OM AS AZ IW CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC. Wrote the paper: UM FM OM AS AZ BC IW BK RS CK PM.