About the Authors

Yvonne Schmiedel

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Schmiedel, Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, Lucja A. Labuda

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), BP118 Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Schmiedel, Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, Lucja A. Labuda

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), BP118 Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Departement de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université des Sciences de la Santé, BP 4009, Libreville, Gabon

Lucja A. Labuda

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Schmiedel, Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, Lucja A. Labuda

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), BP118 Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jacqueline J. Janse

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Brechje de Gier

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ayôla A. Adegnika

a.a.adegnika@medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), BP118 Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Saadou Issifou

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), BP118 Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Peter G. Kremsner

Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), BP118 Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Hermelijn H. Smits

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Maria Yazdanbakhsh

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAA HHS MY. Performed the experiments: YS GMN LAL BdG. Analyzed the data: YS GMN LAL JJJ HHS MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAA PGK SI MY. Wrote the paper: YS GMN LAL MY.