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Vonaesch, Pascale
Randremanana, Rindra
Gody, Jean-Chrysostome
Collard, Jean-Marc
Giles-Vernick, Tamara
Doria, Maria
Vigan-Womas, Inès
Rubbo, Pierre-Alain
Etienne, Aurélie
Andriatahirintsoa, Emilson Jean
Kapel, Nathalie
Brown, Eric
Huus, Kelsey E.
Duffy, Darragh
Finlay, B.Brett
Hasan, Milena
Hunald, Francis Allen
Robinson, Annick
Manirakiza, Alexandre
Wegener-Parfrey, Laura
Vray, Muriel
Sansonetti, Philippe J. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-4527
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondation Total
Nutricia Research Foundation (2016-10)
Institut Pasteur (PTR 08-2016)
Odyssey Re-insurance company
Article History
Received: 16 May 2018
Accepted: 21 June 2018
First Online: 19 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol for AFRIBIOTA has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Institut Pasteur (2016–06/IRB) and the National Ethical Review Boards of Madagascar (55/MSANP/CE, May 19th 2015) and the Central African Republic (173/UB/FACSS/CSCVPER/16). All participants received oral and written information about the study and the legal representatives of the children provided written consent to participate in the study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor of this journal.
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: Pierre-Alain Rubbo is the Founding Chief Executive Officer and one of the shareholders, of the start-up company Omunis. Omunis did not provide any financial support for AFRIBIOTA and did not have any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. The other authors declare no competing interests.
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