About the Authors

Lenin Ron-Garrido

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Lenin Ron-Garrido, Marco Coral-Almeida

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

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

Washington Benitez-Ortiz

Affiliation Universidad Central del Ecuador, Centro Internacional de Zoonosis (CIZ), Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador

Claude Saegerman

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

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium

Dirk Berkvens

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

Emmanuel Nji Abatih

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.