About the Authors

Inessa Markus

Contributed equally to this work with: Inessa Markus, Lynn Meurs

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

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, ECDC Fellowship Programme, Field Epidemiology path (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

Lynn Meurs

Contributed equally to this work with: Inessa Markus, Lynn Meurs

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

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, ECDC Fellowship Programme, Field Epidemiology path (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

Rebekah Wood

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Vaoary Razafimbia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Direction de la Veille Sanitaire et de la Surveillance Epidémiologique, Ministère de la Santé Publique (DVSSE), Antananarivo, Madagascar

Andrianasolo Radonirina

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

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Accueil et de Recherche en Santé Publique et en Technologies de l’Information Médicale et de la Communication (LARTIC), Antananarivo, Madagascar

Delphin Kolie

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre National de Formation et de Recherche en Santé Rurale de Maferinyah, Forécariah, Guinea

Rapelerano Rabenja Fahafahantsoa

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Accueil et de Recherche en Santé Publique et en Technologies de l’Information Médicale et de la Communication (LARTIC), Antananarivo, Madagascar

Alexandre Delamou

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea

Jan Walter

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Borchert

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Paerisch

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

paerischt@posteo.de

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.