About the Authors

Bashir Salim

bashirsalim@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum-North, Sudan

Thierry de Meeûs

Affiliations UMR IRD/CIRAD 177 INTERTRYP, CIRDES, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina-Faso, CNRS, Délégation Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France

Mohammed A. Bakheit

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum-North, Sudan, Veterinary Infection-Biology and -Immunology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Joseph Kamau

Affiliation Department of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Ichiro Nakamura

Affiliation Department of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Chihiro Sugimoto

Affiliation Department of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS TdM MAB JK IN CS. Performed the experiments: BS. Analyzed the data: TdM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS CS TdM JK. Wrote the paper: BS TdM MAB CS JK IN.