Developing a clinical case definition for Chikungunya fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Florian Vogt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florian Vogt, Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: florianvogt@hotmail.com

  Affiliations The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2686-3149

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• Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florian Vogt, Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye

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

  Affiliations Recherches Translationnelles sur le Virus de l’Immunodéficience Humaine et les Maladies Infectieuses, Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, INSERM, Montpellier, France, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Anja De Weggheleire,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-4766

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• Sheila Makiala-Mandanda,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Placide Mbala-Kingebeni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Benoit Mputu-Ngoyi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Recherches Translationnelles sur le Virus de l’Immunodéficience Humaine et les Maladies Infectieuses, Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, INSERM, Montpellier, France, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Elisabeth Pukuta,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Lorenzo Subissi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: World Health Organization, Health Emergencies Programme, Geneva, Switzerland

  Affiliation Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Birgit De Smet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jozefien Buyze,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Steve Ahuka-Mundeke

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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