About the Authors

Maeghan O’Neill

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Abdelmoneim Mansour

Affiliation TRS Labs, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Utami DiCosty

Affiliation TRS Labs, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

James Geary

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Michael Dzimianski

Affiliation TRS Labs, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Scott D. McCall

Affiliation TRS Labs, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

John W. McCall

Affiliation TRS Labs, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Charles D. Mackenzie

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Timothy G. Geary

timothy.g.geary@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

Authors AM, UD, MD, SDM and JWM are employees of TRS Laboratories, Inc., which provided space, animals and technical assistance for the design and execution of these experiments and was compensated for those costs. No patents, products, or commercial applications will be derived from this work. This does not alter our adherence to all PLoS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO TGG. Performed the experiments: MO AM UD JG MD CDM. Analyzed the data: MO JG CDM TGG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM UD MD SDM JWM. Wrote the paper: MO CDM SDM JWM TGG.