About the Authors

Tie-Wu Jia

jiatiewu@sina.com (T-WJ); ipdzhouxn@sh163.net (X-NZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory on Biology of Parasites and Vectors, MOH, WHO Collaborating Center on Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Sara Melville

Affiliation Hughes Hall College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jürg Utzinger

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Charles H. King

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Xiao-Nong Zhou

jiatiewu@sina.com (T-WJ); ipdzhouxn@sh163.net (X-NZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory on Biology of Parasites and Vectors, MOH, WHO Collaborating Center on Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T-WJ SM X-NZ. Performed the experiments: T-WJ SM JU X-NZ. Analyzed the data: T-WJ JU CHK X-NZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T-WJ JU CHK X-NZ. Wrote the paper: T-WJ SM JU CHK X-NZ.