About the Authors

Wim Jennes

wjennes@itg.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jordan K. Kyongo

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Evelyn Vanhommerig

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Makhtar Camara

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Bacteriology-Virology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Le Dantec, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

Sandra Coppens

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Moussa Seydi

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Fann, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

Souleymane Mboup

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Bacteriology-Virology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Le Dantec, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

Leo Heyndrickx

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Luc Kestens

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ LH LK. Performed the experiments: JKK EV SC. Analyzed the data: WJ JKK EV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC MS SM SC LH. Wrote the paper: WJ JKK.