About the Authors

Simon Carpenter

simon.carpenter@iah.ac.uk

Affiliation Vector-borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Anthony Wilson

Affiliation Vector-borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

James Barber

Affiliation Vector-borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Eva Veronesi

Affiliation Vector-borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Philip Mellor

Affiliation Vector-borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Gert Venter

Affiliations Entomology, ARC Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Simon Gubbins

Affiliation Vector-borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC GV PM. Performed the experiments: SC JB EV GV. Analyzed the data: SG AW SC. Wrote the paper: SC AW GV SG PM.