Severe acute malnutrition in children admitted in an Intensive Therapeutic and Feeding Centre of South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Why do our patients die?

• Richard Mbusa Kambale ,

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

  * E-mail: richkambale7@gmail.com

  Affiliations Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pediatric Department, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6545-2441

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• Gaylord Amani Ngaboyeka,

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

  Affiliations Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pediatric Department, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa, Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa, Lisa Yvette Kasole, Viateur Habiyambere, Victor Buunda Kubuya, Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliations Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pediatric Department, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa, Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa, Lisa Yvette Kasole, Viateur Habiyambere, Victor Buunda Kubuya, Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Lisa Yvette Kasole ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa, Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa, Lisa Yvette Kasole, Viateur Habiyambere, Victor Buunda Kubuya, Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Viateur Habiyambere ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa, Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa, Lisa Yvette Kasole, Viateur Habiyambere, Victor Buunda Kubuya, Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Victor Buunda Kubuya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa, Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa, Lisa Yvette Kasole, Viateur Habiyambere, Victor Buunda Kubuya, Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa, Marie-Hélène Igega Bisimwa, Lisa Yvette Kasole, Viateur Habiyambere, Victor Buunda Kubuya, Joseph Kasongowa Kasongo

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Emmanuel André ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Dimitri Van der Linden

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, General Pediatrics, Pediatric Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium

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