About the Authors

Lynn Meurs

LMeurs@itg.be

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Moustapha Mbow

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal

Nele Boon

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Frederik van den Broeck

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Kim Vereecken

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Tandakha Ndiaye Dièye

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

Emmanuel Abatih

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Tine Huyse

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, University of Leuven, Leuven, 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 TH LM. Performed the experiments: LM MM KV NB FvdB. Analyzed the data: LM KP EA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP TND SM. Wrote the paper: LM KP.