About the Authors

Elizabeth J. Carlton

elizabeth.carlton@ucdenver.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Yang Liu

Affiliation Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China

Bo Zhong

Affiliation Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China

Alan Hubbard

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Robert C. Spear

Affiliation Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJC BZ RCS. Performed the experiments: EJC YL BZ. Analyzed the data: EJC AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH. Wrote the paper: EJC YL BZ AH RCS.