About the Authors

Daniel Romero-Alvarez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

daromero88@gmail.com, da.romero@ku.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, OneHealth Research Group-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

Gabriela Valverde-Muñoz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation English for Academic Purposes, Johnson County Community College, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Manuel Calvopina

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OneHealth Research Group-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

Maira Rojas

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

William Cevallos

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Hideo Kumazawa

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Hidekazu Takagi

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan

Hiromu Sugiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.