About the Authors

Armelle Pasquet

armellepasquet@hotmail.com

Affiliation Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France

Eugène Messou

Affiliation Programme Aconda, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Delphine Gabillard

Affiliation INSERM U897, Bordeaux, France

Albert Minga

Affiliations INSERM U897, Bordeaux, France, Programme PACCI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Ayeby Depoulosky

Affiliation Programme Aconda, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Sylvie Deuffic-Burban

Affiliations INSERM U995, Lille, France, EA 2694, Faculté de Médecine de Lille, France

Elena Losina

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kenneth A. Freedberg

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christine Danel

Affiliations INSERM U897, Bordeaux, France, Programme PACCI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Xavier Anglaret

Affiliations INSERM U897, Bordeaux, France, Programme PACCI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Yazdan Yazdanpanah

Affiliations Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France, EA 2694, Faculté de Médecine de Lille, France

Competing Interests

With the exception of Yazdan Yazdanpanah and Sylvie Deuffic-Burban none of the authors report any association that might pose a conflict of interest. Dr. Yazdanpanah has received travel grants, consultancy fees and honoraria for presentation at workshops from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Glaxo-SmithKline, Merck-Sharp and Dohme-Chibret, Pfizer, Roche, Schering Plough and Tibotec. Mrs. Deuffic-Burban has received grants from Roche and Janssen-Cilag. 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: AP EM DG SDB EL KAF CD XA YY. Performed the experiments: AP EM AM AD CD. Analyzed the data: AP DG SDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP EM AM AD EL KAF CD XA YY. Wrote the paper: AP YY.