About the Authors

Yusr Saadi-Ben Aoun

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Clinical Investigation Center, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Université de Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

Hejer Souguir

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Hamed Chouaieb

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

Mongia Kraiem

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Insaf Bel Hadj Ali

Roles Visualization

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Clinical Investigation Center, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Ahmed S. Chakroun

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Florian Noguier

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Acobiom, Montpellier, France

Akila Fathallah-Mili

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Clinical Investigation Center, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

David Piquemal

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Acobiom, Montpellier, France

Ikram Guizani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

ikram.guizani@pasteur.utm.tn, iguizani@yahoo.com

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Clinical Investigation Center, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.