About the Authors

Nelly Scuda

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Nadege Freda Madinda

Affiliations Project 23 “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms,” Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute, for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Chantal Akoua-Koffi

Affiliation University Teaching Hospital Bouaké, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire

Edgard Valerie Adjogoua

Affiliation Institut Pasteur Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Diana Wevers

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Jörg Hofmann

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kenneth N. Cameron

Current address: Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, New York, United States of America.

Affiliation Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, Inc., Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Siv Aina J. Leendertz

Affiliation Project 23 “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms,” Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann

Affiliation LANADA/Laboratoire Central de la Pathologie Animale, Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire

Martha Robbins

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute, for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Christophe Boesch

Affiliation Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute, for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Michael A. Jarvis

Affiliation School of Biomedical & Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Ugo Moens

Affiliation University of Tromsø, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Biology, Tromsø, Norway

Lawrence Mugisha

Affiliation EcoHealth Research Group, Conservation & Ecosystem Health Alliance (CEHA), Kampala, Uganda

Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer

Affiliation Project 23 “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms,” Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Fabian H. Leendertz

Affiliation Project 23 “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms,” Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Bernhard Ehlers

ehlersb@rki.de

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS NFM CAK EVA DW JH SAJL ECH CB MAJ SCS FHL BE. Performed the experiments: NS NFM DW SCS BE. Analyzed the data: NS NFM CAK EVA DW JH KNC SAJL ECH MR CB MAJ LM UM SCS FHL BE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NFM CAK EVA DW JH KNC SAJL LM ECH MR CB SCS FHL BE. Wrote the paper: BE NS MAJ FHL SCS SAJL UM.