About the Authors

Junhua Wang

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, State Key Lab Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Franche-Comté and Jean Minjoz University Hospital, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France

Dominique A. Vuitton

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO)-Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, University of Franche-Comté and University Hospital, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France

Norbert Müller

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Andrew Hemphill

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Markus Spiliotis

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Oleg Blagosklonov

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Franche-Comté and Jean Minjoz University Hospital, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France

Denis Grandgirard

Affiliation Neuroinfection Laboratory, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Stephen L. Leib

Affiliations Neuroinfection Laboratory, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Biology Division, Spiez Laboratory, Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP), Spiez, Switzerland

Itay Shalev

Affiliation University of Toronto Transplantation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gary Levy

Affiliation University of Toronto Transplantation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Xiaomei Lu

Affiliation State Key Lab Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

Renyong Lin

Affiliation State Key Lab Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

Hao Wen

Affiliation State Key Lab Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

Bruno Gottstein

bruno.gottstein@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG JW DAV IS. Performed the experiments: JW NM MS DG. Analyzed the data: JW BG AH SLL RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OB IS GL XL. Wrote the paper: JW BG DAV AH HW.