About the Authors

Laurent Hébert

laurent.hebert@anses.fr (LH); sandrine.petry@anses.fr (SP)

Affiliation ANSES, Dozulé Laboratory for Equine Diseases, Dozulé, France

Bouziane Moumen

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1319 Micalis, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Nicolas Pons

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1319 Micalis, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Fabien Duquesne

Affiliation ANSES, Dozulé Laboratory for Equine Diseases, Dozulé, France

Marie-France Breuil

Affiliation ANSES, Dozulé Laboratory for Equine Diseases, Dozulé, France

Didier Goux

Affiliation Centre de Microscopie Appliquée à la Biologie, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie et IFR146 ICORE, Caen, France

Jean-Michel Batto

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1319 Micalis, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Claire Laugier

Affiliation ANSES, Dozulé Laboratory for Equine Diseases, Dozulé, France

Pierre Renault

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1319 Micalis, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Sandrine Petry

laurent.hebert@anses.fr (LH); sandrine.petry@anses.fr (SP)

Affiliation ANSES, Dozulé Laboratory for Equine Diseases, Dozulé, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH SP PR CL. Performed the experiments: LH M-FB FD DG. Analyzed the data: LH BM NP J-MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH M-FB FD BM NP. Wrote the paper: LH PR.