About the Authors

Sandrine Souquière

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandrine Souquière, Maria Makuwa

Affiliation Unité de Rétrovirologie, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Maria Makuwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandrine Souquière, Maria Makuwa

Affiliation Unité de Rétrovirologie, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon

Bettina Sallé

Affiliation Centre de Primatologie, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), BP 769, Franceville, Gabon

Mirdad Kazanji

mirdad.kazanji@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Unité de Rétrovirologie, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur, Bangui, Central African Republic

Competing Interests

The authors received funding from a commercial source (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: SS MM MK. Performed the experiments: SS MM. Analyzed the data: SS MM MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS. Wrote the paper: SS MM MK.