About the Authors

Mouna Rajhi

rajhimouna@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Carthage, Faculty of Sciences, Bizerte, Tunisia

Kais Ghedira

Affiliations Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Mathematics and Statistics, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, 1036, Tunisia

Anissa Chouikha

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia

Ahlem Djebbi

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia

Imed Cheikh

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Regional Hospital of Bizerte, Bizerte, Tunisia

Ahlem Ben Yahia

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia

Amel Sadraoui

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia

Walid Hammami

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia

Msaddek Azouz

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Regional Hospital of Nabeul, Nabeul, Tunisia

Nabil Ben Mami

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, La Rabta Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia

Henda Triki

Affiliations Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Laboratory of Clinical Virology, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory on Poliomyelitis and Measles, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, 1036, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR HT AC AD IC MA NBM. Performed the experiments: MR. Analyzed the data: MR KG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABY AS WH. Wrote the paper: MR KG HT. Performed the Bayesian coalescent analyses: KG.