About the Authors

Gabriela Fagundez

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela Fagundez, Hugo Perez-Freixo

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

Hugo Perez-Freixo

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela Fagundez, Hugo Perez-Freixo

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Juan Eyene

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (PNLP in Spanish), Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Juan Carlos Momo

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (PNLP in Spanish), Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Lucia Biyé

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (PNLP in Spanish), Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Teodoro Esono

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (PNLP in Spanish), Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Marcial Ondó Mba Ayecab

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (PNLP in Spanish), Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Agustín Benito

Affiliations National Centre of Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain, The Spanish Tropical Diseases Research Network (RICET in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Pilar Aparicio

Affiliations National Centre of Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain, The Spanish Tropical Diseases Research Network (RICET in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Zaida Herrador

zherrador@isciii.es

Affiliations National Centre of Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain, The Spanish Tropical Diseases Research Network (RICET in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZH PA AB. Data curation: GF HPF ZH. Formal analysis: GF HPF ZH. Investigation: GF HPF JCM LB TE MOMA. Methodology: GF HPF ZH. Project administration: ZH PA AB. Resources: JE JCM LB TE MOMA ZH AB PA. Supervision: JE ZH AB PA. Validation: GF HPF. Visualization: GF HPF ZH. Writing – original draft: GF HPF ZH. Writing – review & editing: JE JCM LB TE MOMA AB PA.