About the Authors

Xiaodi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodi Yang, Yaping Yang

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College; Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu, Anhui, China

Yaping Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodi Yang, Yaping Yang

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yunyun Wang

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Bin Zhan

Affiliation Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuan Gu

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yuli Cheng

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xinping Zhu

zhuxping@ccmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XPZ BZ. Performed the experiments: XDY. Analyzed the data: YPY YYW YLC YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPY. Wrote the paper: XDY XPZ.