Antoine Oloma Tshomba:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2440-8468
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Daniel Mukadi-Bamuleka: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Anja De Weggheleire: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Olivier M. Tshiani: Role: Data curationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Charles T. Kayembe: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review &
editing
Placide Mbala-Kingebeni: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Steve Ahuka-Mundeke: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing – review & editing
Faustin M. Chenge: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Bart Karl M. Jacobs: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Dieudonné N. Mumba:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5886-2004
Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Désiré D. Tshala-Katumbay: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Sabue Mulangu: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jan Rychtář: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
17
October
2023
Publication date Collection: 2023
Volume: 18
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0293077
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Public Health, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC)
[2
]
National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DRC
[3
]
Department of Medical Biology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC
[4
]
Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC
[5
]
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, DRC
[6
]
School of Public Health, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, RDC
[7
]
Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
[8
]
Department of Neurology and School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University,
Portland, Oregon, United States of America
[9
]
Department of Neurology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC
Virginia Commonwealth University, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-23-12291
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293077
PMC ID: 10581462
PubMed ID: 37847703
SO-VID: f7be1b7b-f19a-4b21-8304-5871fa2fe468
Copyright © © 2023 Tshomba et al
License:
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Funded by:
NIH
Award ID: Grant reference NIH FIC/R01EY031894
Award Recipient
:
Désiré D. Tshala-Katumbay
This study has received partial support from NIH (Grant reference NIH FIC/R01EY031894).
The funder had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or
interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish
the results.
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