About the Authors
- Bulent Alten
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology Division, HUESRL-VERG laboratories, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- Carla Maia
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Affiliation Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Unidade Parasitologia Médica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Maria Odete Afonso
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Affiliation Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Unidade Parasitologia Médica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Lenea Campino
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Affiliation Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Unidade Parasitologia Médica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Maribel Jiménez
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Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Servicio de Parasitología, Unidad de Entomología Médica, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
- Estela González
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Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Servicio de Parasitología, Unidad de Entomología Médica, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
- Ricardo Molina
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Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Servicio de Parasitología, Unidad de Entomología Médica, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
- Anne Laure Bañuls
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Jorian Prudhomme
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Baptiste Vergnes
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Celine Toty
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Cécile Cassan
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Nil Rahola
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Magali Thierry
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Denis Sereno
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
- Gioia Bongiorno
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Affiliation M.I.P.I. Department, Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Riccardo Bianchi
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Affiliation M.I.P.I. Department, Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Cristina Khoury
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Affiliation M.I.P.I. Department, Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Nikolaos Tsirigotakis
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Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Emmanouil Dokianakis
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Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Maria Antoniou
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Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Vasiliki Christodoulou
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Affiliation Veterinary Services of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Apostolos Mazeris
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Affiliation Veterinary Services of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Mehmet Karakus
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Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
- Yusuf Ozbel
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Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
- Suha K. Arserim
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Affiliation Vocational School of Health Sciences, Cela Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
- Ozge Erisoz Kasap
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology Division, HUESRL-VERG laboratories, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- Filiz Gunay
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology Division, HUESRL-VERG laboratories, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- Gizem Oguz
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology Division, HUESRL-VERG laboratories, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- Sinan Kaynas
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Affiliation Veterinary Faculty, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey
- Nikoloz Tsertsvadze
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Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Lamzira Tskhvaradze
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Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Ekaterina Giorgobiani
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† Deceased.
Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Marina Gramiccia
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Affiliation M.I.P.I. Department, Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Petr Volf
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Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Luigi Gradoni
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* E-mail: luigi.gradoni@iss.it
Affiliation M.I.P.I. Department, Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BA CM LC MJ RM ALB DS MA YO EGo MG PV LG. Performed the experiments: BA CM MOA LC MJ EGo RM ALB JP BV CT CC NR MT DS GB RB CK NTsi ED MA VC AM MK YO SKA OEK FG GO SK NTse LT EGi MG LG. Analyzed the data: BA GB PV LG. Wrote the paper: LG BA PV.