About the Authors

Atsushi Furukawa

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Parasitology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Japan

Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoyoshi Nozaki

nozaki@nih.go.jp

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF KN-T TN. Performed the experiments: AF KN-T. Analyzed the data: AF TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF KN-T TN. Wrote the paper: AF KN-T TN.