About the Authors

Serge Tonen-Wolyec

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wolyec@gmail.com

Affiliations Ecole Doctorale Régionale D’Afrique Centrale en Infectiologie Tropicale, Franceville, Gabon, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Roland Marini Djang’eing’a

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Salomon Batina-Agasa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Charles Kayembe Tshilumba

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jérémie Muwonga Masidi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliations National AIDS and STIs Reference Laboratory, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Marie-Pierre Hayette

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, University Hospital of Liège, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Laurent Bélec

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

Affiliations Laboratoire de virologie médicale et oncologique, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Université de Paris, Paris Sorbonne Cité, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.