About the Authors
- Isabelle Delrieu
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Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
- Seydou Yaro
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Affiliation Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Tsidi A. S. Tamekloé
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Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lomé, Togo
- Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade
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Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
- Haoua Tall
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Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
- Philippe Jaillard
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Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
- Macaire S. Ouedraogo
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Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Souro Sanou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Kossi Badziklou
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Affiliation Institut National de l'Hygiène, Lomé, Togo
- Oumarou Sanou
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Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
- Aly Drabo
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Affiliation Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Bradford D. Gessner
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Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
- Jean L. Kambou
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Affiliation Ministry of Health, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Judith E. Mueller
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* E-mail: jmueller@aamp.org
Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France
Competing Interests
ID, BL, HT, PJ, OS, BDG and JEM work for AMP, which receives unrestricted financial support from Sanofi Pasteur. Other authors do not declare any conflict of interest. The listed conflicts of interest do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Analyzed the data: ID HT JEM. Wrote the paper: ID JEM. Conceived and designed the surveillance projects: B-MN-L PJ BDG JEM. Implemented the field surveillance: SY TAST HT PJ MSO JLK JEM. Performed the laboratory analyses: B-MN-L KB OS AD. Revised multiple versions of the paper: SY TAST B-MN-L HT PJ MSO KB OS AD BDG JLK. Final approval of the version to be published: ID SY TAST B-MN-L HT PJ MSO KB OS AD BDG JLK JEM.