About the Authors

Yahaya Adam

Affiliation Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Pong-Tamale, Ghana

Giuliano Cecchi

Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy

Patrick M. Kgori

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Veterinary Services, Maun, Botswana

Tanguy Marcotty

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Charles I. Mahama

Affiliation Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Pong-Tamale, Ghana

Martin Abavana

Affiliation Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Pong-Tamale, Ghana

Benita Anderson

Affiliation Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Accra, Ghana

Massimo Paone

Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy

Raffaele Mattioli

Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy

Jérémy Bouyer

bouyer@cirad.fr

Affiliations Unité Mixte de Recherche Contrôles des Maladies Animales et Emergentes, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier, France, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles, Laboratoire National d'Elevage et de Recherches Vétérinaires, Dakar, Sénégal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YA GC PMK CIM MA RM JB. Performed the experiments: YA PMK CIM MA. Analyzed the data: YA GC PMK TM BA MP JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YA GC PMK TM CIM MA JB. Wrote the paper: YA GC PMK TM CIM RM JB.