About the Authors

Evi Gouzelou

Contributed equally to this work with: Evi Gouzelou, Christos Haralambous

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

Christos Haralambous

Contributed equally to this work with: Evi Gouzelou, Christos Haralambous

christosharalambous@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

Ahmad Amro

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine

Andreas Mentis

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

Francine Pratlong

Affiliation Laboratoire de Parasitologie and Centre National de Référence des Leishmania, Université Montpellier 1 and CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Jean-Pierre Dedet

Affiliation Laboratoire de Parasitologie and Centre National de Référence des Leishmania, Université Montpellier 1 and CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Jan Votypka

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Petr Volf

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Seray Ozensoy Toz

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University Medical School, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

Katrin Kuhls

Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gabriele Schönian

Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ketty Soteriadou

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH KS. Performed the experiments: EG CH. Analyzed the data: EG CH AA KK AM GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP J-PD JV PV SOT. Wrote the paper: EG CH KS.