Ralph Huits:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8803-9468
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Jaclyn De Kort: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Riemsdijk Van Den Berg: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Luis Chong: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Achilleas Tsoumanis:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7565-1359
Role: Formal analysis
Kaat Eggermont: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Koen Bartholomeeusen: Role: Investigation
Kevin K. Ariën: Role: InvestigationRole: Resources
Jan Jacobs: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Marjan Van Esbroeck: Role: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Emmanuel Bottieau: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Lieselotte Cnops: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Aftab A. Ansari: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
30
April
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0196630
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
[2
]
Department of Internal Medicine, Horacio Oduber Hospital, Oranjestad, Aruba
[3
]
Landslaboratorium Aruba, Oranjestad, Aruba
[4
]
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
[5
]
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
[6
]
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Emory University School of Medicine, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Current address: Department of Public Health, Oranjestad, Aruba
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-02588
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196630
PMC ID: 5927412
PubMed ID: 29709007
SO-VID: 80c46e82-20b6-4915-a847-b73364e5b6b3
Copyright © © 2018 Huits et al
License:
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the original author and source are credited.
The authors received no external funding for this work. The National Reference Center
of arboviruses (ITM) is partially supported by the Belgian Ministry of Social Affairs
through a fund within the Health Insurance System. LC holds an innovation mandate
(140779) from the Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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Organisms
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Viruses
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RNA viruses
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Togaviruses
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Alphaviruses
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Chikungunya Virus
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Microbiology
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Medical Microbiology
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Microbial Pathogens
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Viral Pathogens
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Togaviruses
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Alphaviruses
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Chikungunya Virus
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Pathogens
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Microbial Pathogens
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Viral Pathogens
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Togaviruses
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Alphaviruses
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Chikungunya Virus
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Organisms
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Viruses
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Viral Pathogens
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Togaviruses
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Alphaviruses
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Chikungunya Virus
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Molecular Biology Techniques
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Molecular Biology Techniques
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Artificial Gene Amplification and Extension
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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