About the Authors

Miriam Bolz

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Bolz, Martin W. Bratschi

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Martin W. Bratschi

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Bolz, Martin W. Bratschi

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sarah Kerber

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Jacques C. Minyem

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, FAIRMED, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Alphonse Um Boock

Affiliation FAIRMED, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Moritz Vogel

Affiliation Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Pierre Franklin Bayi

Affiliation FAIRMED, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Thomas Junghanss

Affiliation Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Daniela Brites

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Simon R. Harris

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Julian Parkhill

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gerd Pluschke

gerd.pluschke@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Araceli Lamelas Cabello

Current address: Red de Estudios Moleculares Avanzados, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, México

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB MWB SK JCM AUB GP ALC. Performed the experiments: MB MWB SK MV PFB TJ ALC. Analyzed the data: MB MWB DB SRH GP ALC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MV PFB TJ SRH JP. Wrote the paper: MB MWB DB SRH JP GP ALC.