About the Authors

Mohammed Essa Marghany Tolba

essa3eg@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, Department of Medical Genomics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Enas Abdelhameed Mahmoud Huseein

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Haiam Mohamed Mahmoud Farrag

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, Faculty of Applied Medical Science, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia

Hanan El Deek Mohamed

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Seiki Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Suzuki

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tarek Ahmed Mohamed Ali

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Sumio Sugano

Affiliation Department of Medical Genomics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEMT EAMH HMMF HEDM SK JS SS. Analyzed the data: MEMT SS JS. Wrote the paper: MEMT SS. Cultured parasites: MEMT EAMH SK. Did the animal experiment: MEMT EAMH HMMF HEDM TAMA. Made the molecular experiments: MEMT SK JS SS.