About the Authors

Antoine Oloma Tshomba

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

antotshomba@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Department of Public Health, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC

Daniel Mukadi-Bamuleka

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

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Anja De Weggheleire

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Olivier M. Tshiani

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Charles T. Kayembe

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, DRC

Placide Mbala-Kingebeni

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Steve Ahuka-Mundeke

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Faustin M. Chenge

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), School of Public Health, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, RDC

Bart Karl M. Jacobs

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Dieudonné N. Mumba

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

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Désiré D. Tshala-Katumbay

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Neurology and School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Sabue Mulangu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC, Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests