Prevalence and risk of occurrence of visible birth defects in mining areas in South Kivu: A hospital-based cross-sectional study

• Fabrice Gulimwentuga Cikomola ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabrice Gulimwentuga Cikomola, Alliance Wani Bisimwa, Arsene Daniel Nyalundja

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu (HPGRB), Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Center for Tropical Diseases and Global Health, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4894-8939

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• Alliance Wani Bisimwa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabrice Gulimwentuga Cikomola, Alliance Wani Bisimwa, Arsene Daniel Nyalundja

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu (HPGRB), Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Arsene Daniel Nyalundja ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabrice Gulimwentuga Cikomola, Alliance Wani Bisimwa, Arsene Daniel Nyalundja

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nyalu_arse.adn@outlook.com

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Center for Tropical Diseases and Global Health, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-3928

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• Ernest J. Barthélemy,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Neurosurgery, Global Neurosurgery Laboratory, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

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• Bijoux Safi Matabaro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu (HPGRB), Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Franck Masumbuko Mukamba,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu (HPGRB), Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Kinja Nyamugabo,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Désiré Munyali Alumeti,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Théophile Kabesha,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Marc Miserez,

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

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, KU Leuven-University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Dieudonné Mushengezi Sengeyi

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

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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