About the Authors

Richard Njouom

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Njouom, Mélanie Caron

Affiliations Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Mélanie Caron

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Njouom, Mélanie Caron

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Guillaume Besson

Affiliations Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Guy-Roger Ndong-Atome

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Maria Makuwa

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Régis Pouillot

Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Dieudonné Nkoghé

Affiliations Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, Ministère de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon

Eric Leroy

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

Mirdad Kazanji

mirdad.kazanji@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur, Bangui, Central African Republic

Competing Interests

The authors received funding from Total-Gabon; however, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RN MC MK. Performed the experiments: RN MC GB G-RNA MM DN. Analyzed the data: RN MC RP MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DN EL. Wrote the paper: RN MC MM DN GB EL MK.