About the Authors

Mary Ann McDowell

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Ann McDowell, Sima Rafati, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Afif Ben Salah

mcdowell.11@nd.edu

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Sima Rafati

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Ann McDowell, Sima Rafati, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Afif Ben Salah

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Ann McDowell, Sima Rafati, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Afif Ben Salah

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Afif Ben Salah

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Ann McDowell, Sima Rafati, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Afif Ben Salah

Affiliation Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Laboratory of Medical Epidemiology, Tunis, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.