About the Authors
- Lenin Ron-Garrido
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lenin Ron-Garrido, Marco Coral-Almeida
Affiliations Universidad Central del Ecuador, Centro Internacional de Zoonosis (CIZ), Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis applied to the Veterinary Sciences (UREAR-ULg), Fundamental and Applied Research for Animal and Health (FARAH), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Marco Coral-Almeida
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lenin Ron-Garrido, Marco Coral-Almeida
* E-mail: marco.coralalmeida@ugent.be
Affiliations Universidad Central del Ecuador, Centro Internacional de Zoonosis (CIZ), Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Universidad de las Américas, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Quito Ecuador, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Sarah Gabriël
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Washington Benitez-Ortiz
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Affiliation Universidad Central del Ecuador, Centro Internacional de Zoonosis (CIZ), Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador
- Claude Saegerman
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Affiliation Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis applied to the Veterinary Sciences (UREAR-ULg), Fundamental and Applied Research for Animal and Health (FARAH), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Pierre Dorny
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Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Dirk Berkvens
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Emmanuel Nji Abatih
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Affiliation 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: LRG DB ENA. Performed the experiments: LRG ENA. Analyzed the data: LRG MCA DB CS PD SG WBO ENA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB ENA MCA. Wrote the paper: LRG MCA ENA PD SG.