About the Authors

Tayseer Elamin Mohamed Elfaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Tayseer Elamin Mohamed Elfaki, Kathrin Arndts

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Parasitology and Immunology, College of Medical Laboratory Science, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

Kathrin Arndts

Contributed equally to this work with: Tayseer Elamin Mohamed Elfaki, Kathrin Arndts

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Anna Wiszniewsky

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Manuel Ritter

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ibtisam A. Goreish

Affiliation Animal Resources Research Corporation, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rangelands, Khartoum, Sudan

Misk El Yemen A. Atti El Mekki

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Immunology, College of Medical Laboratory Science, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

Sandra Arriens

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Kenneth Pfarr

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Rolf Fimmers

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Mike Doenhoff

Affiliation School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Achim Hoerauf

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site, Bonn-Cologne, Bonn, Germany

Laura E. Layland

laura.layland@microbiology-bonn.de

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site, Bonn-Cologne, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LEL KA TEME. Performed the experiments: TEME KA AW SA MR. Analyzed the data: KA LEL MR SA LEL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD KP AH RF IAG MEYAAEM. Wrote the paper: LEL KA.