About the Authors

Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau

mlormeau@ilm.pf

Affiliation Laboratoire de recherche en virologie médicale, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Claudine Roche

Affiliation Laboratoire de recherche en virologie médicale, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Maite Aubry

Affiliation Laboratoire de recherche en virologie médicale, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Anita Teissier

Affiliation Laboratoire d'analyses de biologie médicale, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Stéphane Lastere

Affiliation Laboratoire d'analyses de biologie médicale, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Elise Daudens

Affiliation Bureau de veille sanitaire, Direction de la santé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Henri-Pierre Mallet

Affiliation Bureau de veille sanitaire, Direction de la santé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Didier Musso

Affiliation Laboratoire d'analyses de biologie médicale, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

John Aaskov

Affiliation Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: V-MC-L CR MA. Performed the experiments: MA AT. Analyzed the data: V-MC-L CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: V-MC-L SL ED H-PM DM JA. Wrote the paper: V-MC-L CR SL ED DM JA.