Antibodies against medically relevant arthropod-borne viruses in the ubiquitous African rodent Mastomys natalensis

• Wim De Kesel ,

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

  * E-mail: wim.dekesel@uantwerpen.be (WDK); karien@itg.be (KKA)

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Virology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7040-273X

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• Bram Vanden Broecke,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Benny Borremans,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Wildlife Health Ecology Research Organization, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Léa Fourchault,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation OD Taxonomy & Phylogeny, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Elisabeth Willems,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Ann Ceulemans,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Virology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Virus Ecology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Christopher Sabuni,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Pest Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Apia Massawe,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Pest Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Rhodes H. Makundi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Pest Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Herwig Leirs,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Martine Peeters,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TransVIHMI, University of Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), INSERM, Montpellier, France

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• Erik Verheyen,

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

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, OD Taxonomy & Phylogeny, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Sophie Gryseels,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, OD Taxonomy & Phylogeny, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Joachim Mariën,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Virus Ecology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Kevin K. Ariën

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

  * E-mail: wim.dekesel@uantwerpen.be (WDK); karien@itg.be (KKA)

  Affiliations Virology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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