About the Authors
- Daniel Kulke
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Affiliations Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Global Drug Discovery, Animal Health, Parasiticides, Bayer HealthCare, Leverkusen, Germany
- Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna
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Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Sandra M. Miltsch
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Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Adrian J. Wolstenholme
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Aaron R. Jex
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Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Robin B. Gasser
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Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Cristina Ballesteros
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Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
- Timothy G. Geary
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Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
- Jennifer Keiser
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Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Simon Townson
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Affiliation Tropical Parasitic Diseases Unit, Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Achim Harder
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Affiliation WE Biology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Jürgen Krücken
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* E-mail: juergen.kruecken@fu-berlin.de
Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
DK, PhD student of the Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, is employed by Bayer HealthCare, Global Drug Discovery, Animal Health, developing veterinary pharmaceuticals including dewormers. Furthermore, AH was an employee of Bayer HealthCare when part of the study was conducted. Except of AH and DK, Bayer HealthCare was not involved in study design, data collection, data analysis or preparation of the manuscript. The decision to publish the manuscript was jointly taken. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DK GvSH ARJ RBG AH JK. Performed the experiments: DK SMM ARJ CB JK. Analyzed the data: DK ARJ TGG JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJW ST JK. Wrote the paper: DK GvSH ARJ RBG TGG JK.