About the Authors
- Richard Njouom
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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
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Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Njouom, Mélanie Caron
Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon
- Guillaume Besson
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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
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Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon
- Maria Makuwa
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Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon
- Régis Pouillot
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Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Dieudonné Nkoghé
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Affiliations Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, Ministère de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon
- Eric Leroy
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Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon
- Mirdad Kazanji
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* E-mail: 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.