About the Authors

Guillaume Roux

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Current address: Centre Hospitalier de Gap, Laboratoire de Biologie, Gap, France

Affiliation Univ. Montpellier, and Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Nîmes, Nîmes, France

Christophe Ravel

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ. Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Montpellier, Dept. of Parasitology-Mycology, Research Unit MiVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France

Emmanuelle Varlet-Marie

Roles Resources

Affiliation Univ. Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Montpellier, Dept. of Parasitology-Mycology, Research Unit MiVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France

Rachel Jendrowiak

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Univ. Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Montpellier, Dept. of Parasitology-Mycology, Research Unit MiVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France

Patrick Bastien

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ. Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Montpellier, Dept. of Parasitology-Mycology, Research Unit MiVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France

Yvon Sterkers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yvon.sterkers@umontpellier.fr

Affiliation Univ. Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Montpellier, Dept. of Parasitology-Mycology, Research Unit MiVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

We acknowledge the financial support of the "RSI Assurance Maladie Professions Libérales - Provinces. C.A.M.P.L.P." for buying the LightCycler 480 (Roche®) real-time PCR equipment. Since this funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript; this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.