About the Authors

Ekaterina Giorgobiani

egiorgobiani@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Nazibrola Chitadze

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Gvantsa Chanturya

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Marina Grdzelidze

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Ryan C. Jochim

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anna Machablishvili

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tsiuri Tushishvili

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Yulia Zedginidze

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Marina K. Manjgaladze

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia

Nino Iashvili

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia

Manana P. Makharadze

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tsiuri Zakaraya

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia

Konstantin Kikaleishvili

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Ivan Markhvashvili

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Goderdzi Badashvili

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia

Teymuraz Daraselia

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Michael P. Fay

Affiliation Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shaden Kamhawi

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Sacks

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG SK DS. Performed the experiments: EG NC GC MG RCJ. Analyzed the data: EG MPF SK DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM TT YZ MKM NI MPM TZ KK IM GB TD MPF. Wrote the paper: EG MPF SK DS.