About the Authors

Anne Poinsignon

anne.poinsignon@ird.fr

Affiliation UR024-Epidémiologie et Prévention, IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), Dakar, Sénégal

Sylvie Cornelie

Affiliation UR024-Epidémiologie et Prévention, IRD, Montpellier, France

Montserrat Mestres-Simon

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Parasitology Section, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Lanfrancotti

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Parasitology Section, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Marie Rossignol

Affiliation UR024-Epidémiologie et Prévention, IRD, Montpellier, France

Denis Boulanger

Affiliation UR024-Epidémiologie et Prévention, IRD, Montpellier, France

Badara Cisse

Affiliations UR077-Paludologie Afro-tropicale, Dakar, Sénégal, Département de Parasitologie, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal

Cheikh Sokhna

Affiliation UR077-Paludologie Afro-tropicale, Dakar, Sénégal

Bruno Arcà

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Parasitology Section, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

François Simondon

Affiliation UR024-Epidémiologie et Prévention, IRD, Montpellier, France

Franck Remoue

Affiliation UR024-Epidémiologie et Prévention, IRD, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS AP SC BA FR. Performed the experiments: AP MR. Analyzed the data: AP FR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS BC AL BA MM. Wrote the paper: AP DB BA FR.