About the Authors

Shan Lv

Affiliations National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Yi Zhang

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

He-Xiang Liu

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ling Hu

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Kun Yang

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Peter Steinmann

Affiliations National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Zhao Chen

Affiliation Ministry of Health of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Li-Ying Wang

Affiliation Ministry of Health of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jürg Utzinger

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Xiao-Nong Zhou

ipdzhouxn@sh163.net

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL YZ ZC LYW XNZ. Performed the experiments: SL YZ HXL LH KY. Analyzed the data: SL KY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL YZ. Wrote the paper: SL PS JU XNZ.