About the Authors

Maurice Demanou

demanou@pasteur-yaounde.org

Affiliation Virology Department, Centre Pasteur Cameroon, Member of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes (RIIP), Yaounde, Cameroon

Régis Pouillot

Affiliation Epidemiology Department, Centre Pasteur Cameroon, Member of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes (RIIP), Yaounde, Cameroon

Marc Grandadam

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Laos, Laboratoire des Arbovirus et Maladies Virales Émergentes, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Pascal Boisier

Affiliation Epidemiology Department, Centre Pasteur Cameroon, Member of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes (RIIP), Yaounde, Cameroon

Basile Kamgang

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Jean Pierre Hervé

Affiliation IRD, UR 016, Montpellier, France

Christophe Rogier

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Dominique Rousset

Affiliations Virology Department, Centre Pasteur Cameroon, Member of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes (RIIP), Yaounde, Cameroon, Institut Pasteur de La Guyane, Laboratoire de Virologie, Cayenne, French Guiana

Christophe Paupy

Affiliations UMR MIVEGEC (IRD 224 - CNRS 5290 - UM1 – UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France, Equipe Ecologie des Systèmes Vectoriels, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD CP RP JPH CR DR. Performed the experiments: MD CP RP MG BK DR. Analyzed the data: MD CP PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD CP RP MG BK DR. Wrote the paper: MD CP PB.