About the Authors

Olivier Koole

olivierkoole@yahoo.com

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Lucien Kalenga

Affiliations AmoCongo, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Modeste Kiumbu

Affiliation School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Joris Menten

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Robert W. Ryder

Affiliation Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Henri Mukumbi

Affiliations AmoCongo, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Robert Colebunders

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OK JM HM RC. Analyzed the data: OK LK JM. Wrote the paper: OK LK MK JM RR HM RC.