About the Authors

Wajahat Mahmood

Current address: Pharmaceutical Sciences, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

Linda T. Viberg

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

Katja Fischer

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Program, Biology Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research, Herston, Australia

Shelley F. Walton

Affiliations Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, School of Health and Sports Science, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

Deborah C. Holt

Deborah.Holt@menzies.edu.au

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM SFW DCH. Performed the experiments: WM LTV KF DCH. Analyzed the data: WM LTV KF SFW DCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM KF SFW DCH. Wrote the paper: WM DCH.