About the Authors

Peter Odermatt

peter.odermatt@unibas.ch

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Institut de la Francophonie pour la médicine tropicale, Vientiane, Laos

Duong Veasna

Affiliations Institut de la Francophonie pour la médicine tropicale, Vientiane, Laos, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Institut de la Francophonie pour la médicine tropicale, Vientiane, Laos

Nanthasane Vannavong

Affiliation Institut de la Francophonie pour la médicine tropicale, Vientiane, Laos

Souraxay Phrommala

Affiliation National Institute of Public Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Shigehisa Habe

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Hubert Barennes

Affiliation Institut de la Francophonie pour la médicine tropicale, Vientiane, Laos

Michel Strobel

Affiliation Institut de la Francophonie pour la médicine tropicale, Vientiane, Laos

Competing Interests

We have no competing interest to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PO DV WZ NV HB MS. Performed the experiments: DV WZ NV SP SH HB. Analyzed the data: PO HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PO DV WZ NV SP SH MS. Wrote the paper: PO HB.