About the Authors

Enock Matovu

matovue@vetmed.mak.ac.ug

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Claire M. Mugasa

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rosine Ali Ekangu

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Stijn Deborggraeve

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Rega Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

George W. Lubega

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Thierry Laurent

Affiliation Coris BioConcept, Gembloux, Belgium

Gerard J. Schoone

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Henk D. Schallig

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Philippe Büscher

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM GWL GJS HDS PB. Performed the experiments: EM CMM RAE SD TL. Analyzed the data: EM CMM RAE SD GWL TL PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GWL TL GJS HDS PB. Wrote the paper: EM CMM RAE SD GJS HDS PB.