About the Authors
- Rym Chamakh-Ayari
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Contributed equally to this work with: Rym Chamakh-Ayari, Rachel Bras-Gonçalves
Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Rachel Bras-Gonçalves
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Contributed equally to this work with: Rym Chamakh-Ayari, Rachel Bras-Gonçalves
Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France
- Narges Bahi-Jaber
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Affiliations Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infection, LR11-IPT-02, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisie, UPSP EGEAL Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, Beauvais, France
- Elodie Petitdidier
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France
- Wafa Markikou-Ouni
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Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Karim Aoun
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Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Javier Moreno
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Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Eugenia Carrillo
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Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Poonam Salotra
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Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India
- Himanshu Kaushal
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Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India
- Narender Singh Negi
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Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India
- Jorge Arevalo
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru
- Francesca Falconi-Agapito
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru
- Angela Privat
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru
- Maria Cruz
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru
- Julie Pagniez
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France
- Gérard-Marie Papierok
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Affiliation BVT-VIRBAC, La Seyne sur Mer, France
- Faten Bel Haj Rhouma
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Affiliation Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infection, LR11-IPT-02, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisie
- Pilar Torres
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Affiliation Centro de Transfusión de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Jean-Loup Lemesre
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR177 IRD/CIRAD «INTERTRYP», Montpellier, France
- Mehdi Chenik
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Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Amel Meddeb-Garnaoui
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* E-mail: amel.garnaoui@pasteur.rns.tn
Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Biotechnology and Biomolecules, LR11-IPT-06, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Competing Interests
It should be noted that a Patent application FR 13 61823 was filed on November 29, 2013, in co-ownership between IRD institute and Virbac company and in agreement with RAPSODI project's Consortium agreement (FP7). This does not alter the author's adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RBG AMG M. Chenik JLL. Performed the experiments: RCA EP EC WMO HK AP JP. Analyzed the data: AMG NBJ RCA EP M. Chenik FBHR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RBG NBJ EP KA JM M. Cruz PS NSN JA FF GMP PT. Wrote the paper: AMG RCA RBG M. Chenik JLL.