About the Authors

Vincent Delespaux

vdelespaux@itg.be

Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Hervé Sèna Vitouley

Affiliation Centre International de Recherche – Développement sur l'Elevage en Zone Subhumide, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Tanguy Marcotty

Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Niko Speybroeck

Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Dirk Berkvens

Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Krisna Roy

Affiliation Pathology and Parasitology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Khulshi, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Stanny Geerts

Affiliation Animal Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Peter Van den Bossche

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.