About the Authors

Anou Dreyfus

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anoudreyfus@outlook.com, anou.dreyfus@pasteur.mg

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Marie-Thérèse Ruf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marga Goris

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Sven Poppert

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Anne Mayer-Scholl

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Nadine Loosli

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nadja S. Bier

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Daniel H. Paris

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Tshokey Tshokey

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital, Thimphu, Bhutan, Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan

John Stenos

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, University Hospital Geelong, Geelong, Australia

Eliharintsoa Rajaonarimirana

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Gustavo Concha

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Organización Wiwa Yugumaiun Bunkuanarua Tairona (OWBYT) Valledupar, Colombia

Jorge Orozco

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation La Secretaría de Salud Departamental de la Gobernación de Cesar, Valledupar, Colombia

Johana Colorado

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratorio de Salud Pública de la Secretaría de Salud Departamental, Valledupar, Colombia

Andrés Aristizábal

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Fundación Salud Para El Trópico (FSPT), Santa Marta, Colombia

Juan C. Dib

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Fundación Salud Para El Trópico (FSPT), Santa Marta, Colombia, Department of Medicine, Fundación Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

Simone Kann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Mission Institute, Wuerzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.