About the Authors

Didier Gbebangi Manzemu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

didiermanzemu@gmail.com

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

Jean Pierre Alworong’a Opara

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

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

Emmanuel Tebandite Kasai

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Mupenzi Mumbere

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of the Graben, Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Véronique Muyobela Kampunzu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Bibi Batoko Likele

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Naura Apio Uvoya

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bunia, Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hortense Malikidogo Vanzwa

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Gaspard Mande Bukaka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

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

Falay Sadiki Dady

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Nestor Ngbonda Dauly

Roles Resources, Supervision

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

Laurent Belec

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, and University of Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Serge Tonen-Wolyec

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bunia, Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.