About the Author(s)


Passoret Vounba Email symbol
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Commission/Fourth phase of the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement Project (REDISSE IV), Libreville, Gabon

Severin Loul symbol
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Commission/Fourth phase of the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement Project (REDISSE IV), Libreville, Gabon

Ludovic F. Tamadea symbol
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Commission/Fourth phase of the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement Project (REDISSE IV), Libreville, Gabon

Joël F.D. Siawaya symbol
Department of Laboratory Services, CHU Mère-Enfant Fondation Jeanne EBORI, Libreville, Gabon

Regional Integrated Surveillance and Laboratory Network (RISLNET) for Central Africa, Libreville, Gabon

Citation


Vounba P, Loul S, Tamadea LF, Siawaya JFD. Corrigendum: Microbiology laboratories involved in disease and antimicrobial resistance surveillance: Strengths and challenges of the central African states. Afr J Lab Med. 2023;12(1), a1913. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v12i1.1913

Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v11i1.1570

Correction

Corrigendum: Microbiology laboratories involved in disease and antimicrobial resistance surveillance: Strengths and challenges of the central African states

Passoret Vounba, Severin Loul, Ludovic F. Tamadea, Joël F.D. Siawaya

Published: 09 May 2023

Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Licensee: AOSIS.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the published article, Vounba P, Loul S, Tamadea LF, Siawaya JFD. Microbiology laboratories involved in disease and antimicrobial resistance surveillance: Strengths and challenges of the central African states. Afr J Lab Med. 2022;11(1), a1570. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v11i1.1570, there is an omission in the Acknowledgements statement. The corrected Acknowledgements statement appears below.

The original incorrect wording:

We sincerely thank Dr Skander Hathroubi (from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) for his contribution by reading and correcting the first draft of the manuscript.

The revised and updated wording:

We sincerely thank Dr Skander Hathroubi (from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) for his contribution by reading and correcting the first draft of the manuscript. This study was commissioned and supported by the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) project in Central Africa, which is financially supported by the World Bank and managed by the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). We would like to thank ECCAS and the World Bank for supporting our efforts through REDISSE.

The authors apologise for this error. The correction does not change the study’s findings of significance or overall interpretation of the study’s results or the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.