About the Authors

Bethany Levick

Contributed equally to this work with: Bethany Levick, Andy South

Current address: Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Andy South

Contributed equally to this work with: Bethany Levick, Andy South

Affiliation Independent consultant, Norwich, United Kingdom

Ian M. Hastings

ian.hastings@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BL AS IMH. Data curation: AS. Formal analysis: BL AS IMH. Funding acquisition: IMH. Investigation: BL AS IMH. Methodology: BL AS IMH. Project administration: BL AS IMH. Software: BL AS IMH. Supervision: IMH. Validation: BL AS IMH. Visualization: AS IMH. Writing – original draft: BL AS IMH. Writing – review & editing: BL AS IMH.