1 Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2 Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
3 Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
4 Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
5 Yersinia Research Unit, National Reference Centre 'Plague & Other Yersinioses', World Health Organization Collaborating Reference and Research Centre for Yersinia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
6 Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Kent, UK.
7 Reference Laboratory for Plague, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany.
8 Medical Entomology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
9 Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Health, National Instittute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
10 Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
11 Alert and Response Operations Programme, Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Department, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland.
12 Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France.
13 REACTing, Inserm, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
14 Department of International Affairs, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
15 Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Bichat - Claude-Bernard, Paris, France.
16 Control de Epidemia Desastres y Otras Emergencias Sanitarias, Oficina General de Epidemiologia, Ministerio de Salud de Perú, Lima, Peru.
17 Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
18 Epidemic diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Nutfield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.