About the Authors

Imen Rabhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Imen Rabhi, Sameh Rabhi

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopathology, Vaccinology and Molecular Genetics (LIVGM), WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Leishmaniasis and Laboratoire International Associé Ingenierie Biomoléculaire (LIA-CNRS), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis-Belvedere, Tunisia

Sameh Rabhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Imen Rabhi, Sameh Rabhi

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopathology, Vaccinology and Molecular Genetics (LIVGM), WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Leishmaniasis and Laboratoire International Associé Ingenierie Biomoléculaire (LIA-CNRS), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis-Belvedere, Tunisia

Rym Ben-Othman

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopathology, Vaccinology and Molecular Genetics (LIVGM), WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Leishmaniasis and Laboratoire International Associé Ingenierie Biomoléculaire (LIA-CNRS), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis-Belvedere, Tunisia

Axel Rasche

Affiliation Department Lehrach (Vertebrate Genomics Department), Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Sysco Consortium

Membership of the Sysco Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Adriani Daskalaki

Affiliation Department Lehrach (Vertebrate Genomics Department), Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Bernadette Trentin

Affiliation Skuldtech. Cap Delta - ZAC Euromedecine II, Grabels, France

David Piquemal

Affiliation Skuldtech. Cap Delta - ZAC Euromedecine II, Grabels, France

Béatrice Regnault

Affiliation Genopole, Institut Pasteur de Paris, Paris, France

Albert Descoteaux

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand Frappier and Centre for Host-Parasite Interactions, Laval, Québec, Canada

Lamia Guizani-Tabbane

lamia.guizani@Pasteur.rns.tn

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopathology, Vaccinology and Molecular Genetics (LIVGM), WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Leishmaniasis and Laboratoire International Associé Ingenierie Biomoléculaire (LIA-CNRS), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis-Belvedere, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LGT. Performed the experiments: IR SR RBO BT DP. Analyzed the data: IR SR AR A. Daskalaki BR BT DP A. Descoteaux LGT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LGT A. Daskalaki BT DP BR A. Descoteaux. Wrote the paper: LGT A. Daskalaki IR SR BT. Manuscript correction: BT A. Descoteaux.