About the Authors

Bin Zhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Zhan, Sridhar Arumugam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sridhar Arumugam

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Zhan, Sridhar Arumugam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Emery Pharma, Alameda CA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Malcolm W. Kennedy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Nancy Tricoche

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Lu-Yun Lian

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NMR Centre for Structural Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Oluwatoyin A. Asojo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sasisekhar Bennuru

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States of America

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sara Lustigman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

slustigman@nybc.org (SL); tklei1@lsu.edu (TRK)

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Thomas R. Klei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

slustigman@nybc.org (SL); tklei1@lsu.edu (TRK)

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests, financial or otherwise.