About the Authors

Jean Paul Akue

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Paul Akue, Dieudonné Nkoghe

jpakue@yahoo.fr

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Dieudonné Nkoghe

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Paul Akue, Dieudonné Nkoghe

Affiliations Unité des Maladies Virales Emergentes, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, Ministry of Health, Libreville, Gabon, Department of Immunodeficiency and Infectious Diseases, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Cindy Padilla

Affiliation Unité des Maladies Virales Emergentes, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Ghislain Moussavou

Affiliation Unité des Maladies Virales Emergentes, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Hubert Moukana

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Roger Antoine Mbou

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Benjamin Ollomo

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Eric Maurice Leroy

Affiliations Unité des Maladies Virales Emergentes, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, MIVEGEC (IRD 224/CNRS 5290/UM1/UM2), Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPA DN EML. Performed the experiments: JPA DN HM RAM. Analyzed the data: JPA DN BO CP GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPA DN CP GM. Wrote the paper: JPA DN. Conceived the maps: GM.