About the Authors

Rym Chamakh-Ayari

Contributed equally to this work with: Rym Chamakh-Ayari, Rachel Bras-Gonçalves

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Rachel Bras-Gonçalves

Contributed equally to this work with: Rym Chamakh-Ayari, Rachel Bras-Gonçalves

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France

Narges Bahi-Jaber

Affiliations Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infection, LR11-IPT-02, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisie, UPSP EGEAL Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, Beauvais, France

Elodie Petitdidier

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France

Wafa Markikou-Ouni

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Karim Aoun

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Javier Moreno

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Eugenia Carrillo

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Poonam Salotra

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Himanshu Kaushal

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Narender Singh Negi

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Jorge Arevalo

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Francesca Falconi-Agapito

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Angela Privat

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Maria Cruz

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Julie Pagniez

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France

Gérard-Marie Papierok

Affiliation BVT-VIRBAC, La Seyne sur Mer, France

Faten Bel Haj Rhouma

Affiliation Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infection, LR11-IPT-02, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisie

Pilar Torres

Affiliation Centro de Transfusión de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jean-Loup Lemesre

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France

Mehdi Chenik

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Amel Meddeb-Garnaoui

amel.garnaoui@pasteur.rns.tn

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Competing Interests

It should be noted that a Patent application FR 13 61823 was filed on November 29, 2013, in co-ownership between IRD institute and Virbac company and in agreement with RAPSODI project's Consortium agreement (FP7). This does not alter the author's adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RBG AMG M. Chenik JLL. Performed the experiments: RCA EP EC WMO HK AP JP. Analyzed the data: AMG NBJ RCA EP M. Chenik FBHR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RBG NBJ EP KA JM M. Cruz PS NSN JA FF GMP PT. Wrote the paper: AMG RCA RBG M. Chenik JLL.