Anne W. Rimoin*, Neville Kisalu†, Benoit Kebela-Ilunga‡, Thibaut Mukaba†, Linda L. Wright§, Pierre Formenty¶, Nathan D. Wolfe#, Robert Loshima Shongo‡, Florimond Tshioko**, Emile Okitolonda††, Jean-Jacques Muyembe†, Robert W. Ryder‡‡, and Hermann Meyer§§ 

Author affiliations: *University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA; †National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; ‡Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; §National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ¶World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; #Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; **World Health Organization, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; ††Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; ‡‡University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; §§Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany;