About the Authors
- Mardjan Arvand
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* E-mail: mardjan.arvand@hlpug.hessen.de
Affiliation Hesse State Health Office, Centre for Health Protection, Dillenburg, Germany
- Didier Raoult
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Affiliation Faculté de Médicine de Marseille, Unité des Rickettsies CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
- Edward J. Feil
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Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MA. Performed the experiments: MA. Analyzed the data: MA EJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA DR. Wrote the paper: MA EJF.