About the Authors

Osama Ahmed Hassan

osama.a.hassan@umu.se

Affiliations Umeå University, Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå, Sweden, Public Health Institute, Khartoum, Sudan

Hippolyte Affognon

Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Bamako, Mali

Joacim Rocklöv

Affiliation Umeå University, Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health and Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå, Sweden

Peter Mburu

Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

Rosemary Sang

Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

Clas Ahlm

Affiliation Umeå University, Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Umeå, Sweden

Magnus Evander

Affiliation Umeå University, Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OAH CA JR HA RS ME. Data curation: OAH PM. Formal analysis: ME OAH. Funding acquisition: ME. Investigation: OAH. Methodology: ME CA JR RS HA OAH. Project administration: OAH ME. Resources: OAH PM. Writing – original draft: OAH PM HA JR RS CA ME.