About the Authors

Guy Caljon

Contributed equally to this work with: Guy Caljon, Reta Duguma

gcaljon@itg.be (GC); jvdabbeele@itg.be (JVDA)

Affiliations Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium, Unit of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Laboratory of Myeloid Cell Immunology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Brussels, Belgium

Reta Duguma

Contributed equally to this work with: Guy Caljon, Reta Duguma

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia

Reginald De Deken

Affiliation Unit Veterinary Entomology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium

Stijn Schauvliege

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Anaesthesia of Domestic Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University (UGent), Ghent, Belgium

Frank Gasthuys

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Anaesthesia of Domestic Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University (UGent), Ghent, Belgium

Luc Duchateau

Affiliation Department of Comparative Physiology and Biometrics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University (UGent), Ghent, Belgium

Jan Van Den Abbeele

gcaljon@itg.be (GC); jvdabbeele@itg.be (JVDA)

Affiliations Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory of Zoophysiology, Department of Physiology, Ghent University (UGent), Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC RDD LD FG JVDA. Performed the experiments: GC RD RDD SS JVDA. Analyzed the data: GC RD LD JVDA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC RDD LD FG JVDA. Wrote the paper: GC RD RDD SS LD JVDA.