About the Authors

Barrie Rooney

b.c.rooney@kent.ac.uk (BR); c.m.smales@kent.ac.uk (CMS)

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Processing, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Turid Piening

Affiliation Medecins sans Frontieres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Philippe Büscher

Affiliation Unit of Parasite Diagnostics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium

Stijn Rogé

Affiliation Unit of Parasite Diagnostics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium

C. Mark Smales

b.c.rooney@kent.ac.uk (BR); c.m.smales@kent.ac.uk (CMS)

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Processing, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BR PB SR CMS. Performed the experiments: BR SR. Analyzed the data: BR TP PB SR CMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BR PB SR. Wrote the paper: BR TP PB SR CMS. Obtain ethical approval for study: PB.