About the Authors

Vincent Pedergnana

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U980, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Mohamed Abdel-Hamid

Affiliations Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Microbiology, Minia Faculty of Medicine, Minia, Egypt

Julien Guergnon

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunity and Infection, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR-S 945, University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP, Paris, France

Amira Mohsen

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Lénaïg Le Fouler

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité d’Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France

Ioannis Theodorou

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunity and Infection, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR-S 945, University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP, Paris, France

Mostafa Kamal Mohamed

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Arnaud Fontanet

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unité d’Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Chaire Santé et Développement, Paris, France

Sabine Plancoulaine

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U980, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Laurent Abel

laurent.abel@inserm.fr

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U980, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAH AF SP LA. Performed the experiments: JG IT MAH AM. Analyzed the data: VP LLF SP LA. Wrote the paper: VP LA. Participated in the collection of data, and the interpretation of clinical data: MAH MKM AF SP.