About the Authors

Emercia Sambany

Affiliation Institut Francophone pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Eric Pussard

Affiliation Génétique Moléculaire, Pharmacogénétique et Hormonologie CHU Bicêtre Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France

Christian Rajaonarivo

Affiliation Institut Francophone pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Honoré Raobijaona

Affiliation Service de Pédiatrie Hôpital Befelatanana, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Hubert Barennes

barenneshub@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Institut Francophone pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, INSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, ANRS, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB EP ES. Performed the experiments: ES HR. Analyzed the data: HB ES CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB EP ES. Wrote the paper: HB ES EP. Revised the manuscript: HB EP. Read the final draft: HB ES EP CR HR.