About the Authors

Gilda Grard

gildagrard@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Jan Felix Drexler

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Joseph Fair

Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jean-Jacques Muyembe

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nathan D. Wolfe

Affiliations Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christian Drosten

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Eric M. Leroy

Affiliations Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR 224 (MIVEGEC), IRD/CNRS/UM1, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG EML. Performed the experiments: GG. Analyzed the data: GG JFD CD EML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-JM JFD CD. Wrote the paper: GG EML JFD CD JF NDW.