About the Authors

Gamou Fall

Contributed equally to this work with: Gamou Fall, Nicholas Di Paola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pôle de Virologie, Unité des Arbovirus et virus des fièvres hémorragiques, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal

Nicholas Di Paola

Contributed equally to this work with: Gamou Fall, Nicholas Di Paola

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Martin Faye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pôle de Virologie, Unité des Arbovirus et virus des fièvres hémorragiques, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal

Moussa Dia

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Pôle de Virologie, Unité des Arbovirus et virus des fièvres hémorragiques, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal

Caio César de Melo Freire

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Evolution, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil

Cheikh Loucoubar

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Groupe à 4 ans de Biostatistiques, Bioinformatique et modélisation, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal

Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pzanotto@usp.br

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ousmane Faye

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Pôle de Virologie, Unité des Arbovirus et virus des fièvres hémorragiques, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal

Amadou Alpha Sall

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pôle de Virologie, Unité des Arbovirus et virus des fièvres hémorragiques, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.