About the Authors

Stephanie N. Seifert

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

stephanie.seifert@wsu.edu

Affiliations Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States, Virus Ecology Section, Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States

Robert J. Fischer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virus Ecology Section, Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States

Eeva Kuisma

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Cynthia Badzi Nkoua

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Gerard Bounga

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Marc-Joël Akongo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Jonathan E. Schulz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virus Ecology Section, Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States

Beatriz Escudero-Pérez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Germany

Beal-Junior Akoundzie

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Vishnou Reize Bani Ampiri

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Ankara Dieudonne

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Direction de la Santé Animale, Ministére de L’Agriculture et de L’Élevage, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Ghislain Dzeret Indolo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Serge D. Kaba

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Igor Louzolo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Lucette Nathalie Macosso

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Yanne Mavoungou

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Valchy Bel-bebi Miegakanda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Rock Aimé Nina

† Deceased.

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Direction de la Santé Animale, Ministére de L’Agriculture et de L’Élevage, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Kevin Tolovou Samabide

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Université Marien N’Gouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Alain I. Ondzie

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Francine Ntoumi

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Université Marien N’Gouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

César Muñoz-Fontela

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Jean-Vivien Mombouli

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Sarah H. Olson

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, New York, United States

Chris Walzer

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, New York, United States, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Fabien Roch Niama

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

Affiliation Département de la Recherche et de la Production, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Vincent J. Munster

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virus Ecology Section, Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.