About the Authors

Ikbel Naouar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ikbel Naouar, Wafa Kammoun Rebai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Transmission Control and Immunobiology of Infection, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wafa Kammoun Rebai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ikbel Naouar, Wafa Kammoun Rebai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kammoun.wafa@gmail.com

Affiliations Faculty of Sciences, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecular, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Afif Ben Salah

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Transmission Control and Immunobiology of Infection, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

Hind Bouguerra

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Observatory of New and Emerging Diseases, Tunis, Tunisia, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Amine Toumi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Information and Intelligence Section, Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

Nabil Belhadj Hamida

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Transmission Control and Immunobiology of Infection, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Hechmi Louzir

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Transmission Control and Immunobiology of Infection, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, National Observatory of New and Emerging Diseases, Tunis, Tunisia

Amel Meddeb-Garnaoui

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecular, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.