About the Authors

Cristina Socolovschi

Affiliation Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Marseille, France

Frédéric Pages

Affiliation CIRE/ARS Océan Indien, La Réunion, France

Mamadou O. Ndiath

Affiliation IRD, Laboratoire de Paludologie, UMR 198 URMITE, Dakar, Sénégal

Pavel Ratmanov

Affiliation Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Marseille, France

Didier Raoult

Didier.Raoult@univmed.fr

Affiliation Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR. Performed the experiments: CS FP MON. Analyzed the data: CS FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR FP. Wrote the paper: CS FP DR. Design of Figure 2: PR.