About the Authors
- Katrin Kuhls
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* E-mail: Katrin.Kuhls@o2online.de
Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Mohammad Zahangir Alam
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Current address: Department of Parasitology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Elisa Cupolillo
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Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em Leishmaniose, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Gabriel Eduardo M. Ferreira
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Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Isabel L. Mauricio
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Current address: Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisboa, Portugal
Affiliation Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Rolando Oddone
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Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay
- M. Dora Feliciangeli
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Affiliation Universidad de Carabobo, BIOMED-Centro Nacional de Referencia de Flebotomos de Venezuela, UC-BIOMED-CNRFV, Maracay, Venezuela
- Thierry Wirth
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Affiliation Département de Systématique et Évolution, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR-CNRS 5202, Paris, France
- Michael A. Miles
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Affiliation Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Gabriele Schönian
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Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KK GS EC MAM. Performed the experiments: KK MZA RO GEMF. Analyzed the data: KK TW MZA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS EC ILM RO MDF GEMF. Wrote the paper: KK GS EC ILM GEMF MAM.