About the Authors

Khaled M. Zayed

Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled M. Zayed, Yun-Hai Guo

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

Affiliations Medical Malacology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yun-Hai Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled M. Zayed, Yun-Hai Guo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Shan Lv

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yi Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Nong Zhou

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

zhouxn1@chinacdc.cn

Affiliations National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.