About the Authors

Anette Stauch

Contributed equally to this work with: Anette Stauch, Ram Rup Sarkar

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Ram Rup Sarkar

Contributed equally to this work with: Anette Stauch, Ram Rup Sarkar

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

Albert Picado

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Bart Ostyn

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Shyam Sundar

Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Suman Rijal

Affiliation Koirala Institute of Medical Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jean-Claude Dujardin

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

Hans-Peter Duerr

hans-peter.duerr@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-PD RRS MB J-CD. Performed the experiments: AS RRS. Analyzed the data: AS H-PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP BO SS SR. Wrote the paper: AS RRS.