About the Authors

Min-Ho Choi

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sue K. Park

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Health Policy Management, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Zhimin Li

Affiliation Heilongjiang Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Heilongjiang, China

Zhuo Ji

Affiliation Heilongjiang Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Heilongjiang, China

Gui Yu

Affiliation Zhaoyuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Heilongjiang, China

Zheng Feng

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

Longqi Xu

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

Seung-Yull Cho

Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

Han-Jong Rim

Affiliation Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, Korea

Soon-Hyung Lee

Affiliations Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, Korea

Sung-Tae Hong

hst@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZF SYC HJR SHL STH. Performed the experiments: ZL ZJ GY ZF LX STH. Analyzed the data: MHC SKP SYC STH. Wrote the paper: MHC STH.