About the Authors

Hirotomo Kato

Contributed equally to this work with: Hirotomo Kato, Abraham G. Cáceres

hkato@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Abraham G. Cáceres

Contributed equally to this work with: Hirotomo Kato, Abraham G. Cáceres

Affiliations Sección de Entomología, Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Daniel A. Carrión” y Departamento Académico de Microbiología Médica, Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, Laboratorio de Entomología, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru

Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

Affiliations Centro de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Prometeo, Secretaría Nacional de Educacion Superior, Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion (SENESCYT), Quito, Ecuador, Department of Parasitology, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK YH. Performed the experiments: HK. Analyzed the data: HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGC. Wrote the paper: HK YH.