About the Authors

Serge C. Billong

sergebillong@yahoo.fr

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Central Technical Group (CTG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS) of the University of Yaoundé 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

Joseph Fokam

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS) of the University of Yaoundé 1, Yaounde, Cameroon, Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre (CIRCB) for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Yaounde, Cameroon

Armand S. Nkwescheu

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS) of the University of Yaoundé 1, Yaounde, Cameroon, Division of Operational Health Research (DROS), Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon

Etienne Kembou

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa (AFRO), National Office, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Pascal Milenge

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa (AFRO), National Office, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Zephirin Tsomo

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Approved Treatment Centre (ATC), Yaounde Central Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon

Grace Ngute Dion

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Central Technical Group (CTG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon, Approved Treatment Centre (ATC), Yaounde General Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon

Avelin F. Aghokeng

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Laboratory of Virology, Centre de Recherche en Maladies Emergentes et Ré-émergentes (CREMER), Yaounde, Cameroon

Eitel N. Mpoudi

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Centre de Recherche en Maladies Emergentes et Ré-émergentes (CREMER), Yaounde, Cameroon

Peter M. Ndumbe

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS) of the University of Yaoundé 1, Yaounde, Cameroon, Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre (CIRCB) for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Vittorio Colizzi

Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre (CIRCB) for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Yaounde, Cameroon, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Rome, Italy, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, UNESCO Chair of Biotechnology, Rome, Italy

Jean B. Elat Nfetam

Affiliations National HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention Working Group (HIVDR-WG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Central Technical Group (CTG), National AIDS Control Committee (NACC), Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCB JF ASN EK PM ZT GND AFA VC PMN ENM JBEN. Performed the experiments: SCB JF ASN EK PM ZT. Analyzed the data: SCB JF ZT ASN EK PM GND VC PMN. Wrote the paper: JF SCB EK ASN. Reviewed the manuscript: PM ZT GND AFA VC PMN ENM JBEN. Approved the final submitted version: SCB JF ASN EK PM ZT GND AFA VC PMN ENM JBEN.