About the Authors
- Vincent Delespaux
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* E-mail: vdelespaux@itg.be
Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Hervé Sèna Vitouley
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Affiliation Centre International de Recherche – Développement sur l'Elevage en Zone Subhumide, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Tanguy Marcotty
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Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Niko Speybroeck
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Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Dirk Berkvens
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Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Krisna Roy
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Affiliation Pathology and Parasitology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Khulshi, Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Stanny Geerts
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Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Peter Van den Bossche
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Affiliations Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VD. Performed the experiments: VD HSV KR. Analyzed the data: VD TM NS DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VD SG PVdB. Wrote the paper: VD. Performed all the experiments on mice: VD. Performed the experiments on cattle and all PCR's: HSV. Participated in the redaction of the manuscript: HSV TM NS DB SG PVdB. Validated the statistical model: NS DB. Performed some experiments on mice: KR.