About the Authors

Lynn Meurs

LMeurs@itg.be

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Moustapha Mbow

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal

Kim Vereecken

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Joris Menten

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Souleymane Mboup

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal

Katja Polman

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP SM LM. Performed the experiments: LM MM KV. Analyzed the data: LM KP JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP SM. Wrote the paper: LM KP.