About the Authors

Eva Martincová

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Martincová, Luboš Voleman

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

Luboš Voleman

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Martincová, Luboš Voleman

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

Vladimíra Najdrová

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

Maximiliano De Napoli

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología Molecular, IIB-INTECH, CONICET-UNSAM, Chascomús, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Shiri Eshar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IMRIC, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Melisa Gualdron

Affiliation Christian De Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Brussels, Belgium

Christine S. Hopp

Affiliation Malaria Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

David E. Sanin

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Dumizulu L. Tembo

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre, Malawi

Daria Van Tyne

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dawn Walker

Affiliation Integrated Biomedical Sciences Center for Microbial Interface Biology Department of Internal Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Michaela Marcinčiková

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

Jan Tachezy

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

Pavel Doležal

paveldolezal@yahoo.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT PD. Performed the experiments: EM LM VN MN SE MG CH DS DT DT DW MM. Analyzed the data: EM LV. Wrote the paper: EM LV PD.