About the Authors

Cristina Socolovschi

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Diseases and Other Arthropod-Borne Bacterial Diseases, Marseille, France

Jean Gaudart

Affiliation Biostatistic Research Unit, LERTIM, EA 3283 Aix-Marseille University, Faculty of Medicine, Marseille, France

Idir Bitam

Affiliation Service d'Ecologie et des Systèmes Vectoriels, Institut Pasteur d'Algérie, Algiers, Algeria

Thi Phong Huynh

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Diseases and Other Arthropod-Borne Bacterial Diseases, Marseille, France

Didier Raoult

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Diseases and Other Arthropod-Borne Bacterial Diseases, Marseille, France

Philippe Parola

philippe.parola@univmed.fr

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Diseases and Other Arthropod-Borne Bacterial Diseases, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS DR PP. Performed the experiments: CS JG IB TPH PP. Analyzed the data: CS JG DR PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR PP. Wrote the paper: CS PP.