About the Authors

Christin Buro

Contributed equally to this work with: Christin Buro, Svenja Beckmann

Current address: Rudolf-Buchheim-Institute of Pharmacology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Affiliation BFS, Institute for Parasitology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Svenja Beckmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Christin Buro, Svenja Beckmann

Affiliation BFS, Institute for Parasitology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Katia C. Oliveira

Current address: Núcleo de Enteroparasitas, Centro de Parasitologia e Micologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Colette Dissous

Affiliation CIIL - Center of Infection and Immunity of Lille, Université Lille Nord de France, Inserm U1019, CNRS-UMR 8204, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Katia Cailliau

Affiliation Laboratoire de Régulation des Signaux de Division, Université Lille 1 Sciences et Technology, EA 4479, IFR 147, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Richard J. Marhöfer

Affiliation MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Molecular Discovery Sciences, Schwabenheim, Germany

Paul M. Selzer

Affiliation MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Molecular Discovery Sciences, Schwabenheim, Germany

Sergio Verjovski-Almeida

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Christoph G. Grevelding

Christoph.Grevelding@vetmed.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation BFS, Institute for Parasitology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

PMS is a principle investigator and RJM a leading scientist of MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH. Under their guidance the modeling data were generated as a pure scientific cooperation without commercial interests. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB SB SVA CGG. Performed the experiments: CB SB KCO CD KC RJM PMS. Analyzed the data: CB SB KCO CD KC RJM PMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SVA CD KC RJM PMS. Wrote the paper: CGG SVA CB SB.