About the Authors

Charlotte Bernigaud

charlotte.bernigaud@univ-paris-est.fr

Affiliations Research Group Dynamyc, EA 7380, EnvA, Université Paris-Est (UPE), Maisons-Alfort & Créteil, France, APHP, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Department of Dermatology, UPEC, Créteil, France

Fang Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Fang, Katja Fischer, Anne Lespine

Affiliations Research Group Dynamyc, EA 7380, EnvA, Université Paris-Est (UPE), Maisons-Alfort & Créteil, France, Department of Parasitology, College of Animal Science and Technology, University of Guangxi, Nanning, China

Katja Fischer

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Fang, Katja Fischer, Anne Lespine

Affiliation Infections Diseases Department, Scabies Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Anne Lespine

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Fang, Katja Fischer, Anne Lespine

Affiliation Toxalim, INRA, INP-ENVT, INP-EI-Purpan, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Ludwig Serge Aho

Affiliation Epidemiology and Infection Control Unit, University Hospital of Dijon, Dijon, France

Dominique Dreau

Affiliation Cecaveto, Saint-Allouestre, France

Andrew Kelly

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Queensland Animal Science Precinct, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Queensland, Australia

Jean-François Sutra

Affiliation Toxalim, INRA, INP-ENVT, INP-EI-Purpan, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Francis Moreau

Affiliation Centre de Recherche BioMédicale (CRBM), EnvA, UPE, Maisons-Alfort, France

Thomas Lilin

Affiliation Centre de Recherche BioMédicale (CRBM), EnvA, UPE, Maisons-Alfort, France

Françoise Botterel

‡ FB, JG, and OC also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Research Group Dynamyc, EA 7380, EnvA, Université Paris-Est (UPE), Maisons-Alfort & Créteil, France, APHP, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Parasitology and Mycology, Department of Microbiology, DHU VIC, UPEC, Créteil, France

Jacques Guillot

‡ FB, JG, and OC also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Research Group Dynamyc, EA 7380, EnvA, Université Paris-Est (UPE), Maisons-Alfort & Créteil, France, Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Biopôle d'Alfort, Ecole nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, UPE, Maisons-Alfort, France

Olivier Chosidow

‡ FB, JG, and OC also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations APHP, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Department of Dermatology, UPEC, Créteil, France, EA EpiDermE (Epidémiologie en Dermatologie et Evaluation des Thérapeutiques) and INSERM, CIC 1430, UPE, Créteil, France

Competing Interests

CB reports receiving a research grant from MSD France, to help establish our first cohort of the experimental porcine scabies model. OC reports receiving, lecture fees, research and travel grants from MSD France; lecture fees from Sanofi U.S.; lecture fees and travel fees from KCL Consulting; and drugs donated free of charge for research from Codexial Dermatologie. No other potential conflict of interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CB FF KF AL LSA DD AK TL FB JG OC. Formal analysis: CB FF KF AL LSA JFS TL FB JG OC. Funding acquisition: CB FB JG OC. Investigation: CB FF KF AL LSA JFS FM TL FB JG OC. Methodology: CB FF KF AL LSA AK JFS FM TL FB JG OC. Supervision: KF TL FB JG OC. Writing – original draft: CB FF KF AL LSA JFS FM TL FB JG OC. Writing – review & editing: CB FF KF AL LSA DD AK JFS FM TL FB JG OC.