Mukendi, Deby https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8999-814X
Kalo, Jean-Roger Lilo
Lutumba, Pascal
Barbé, Barbara
Jacobs, Jan
Yansouni, Cedric P.
Gabriël, Sarah
Dorny, Pierre
Chappuis, François
Boelaert, Marleen
Winkler, Andrea S.
Verdonck, Kristien
Bottieau, Emmanuel
Funding for this research was provided by:
FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (260260)
Article History
Received: 15 December 2019
Accepted: 5 April 2021
First Online: 17 April 2021
Declarations
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: As mentioned under materials and Methods, ethics approvals were obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Tropical medicine and the Ethical Committee of the University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium as well as the School of Public Health of the University of Kinshasa, DR Congo. All study participants signed an informed consent before inclusion in this studies and accepted that additional investigations could be performed later on retrospectively on their samples for etiological purposes.
: Not applicable.
: The authors report no conflict of interest.