About the Authors

Oluwatoyin A. Asojo

asojo@bcm.edu (OAA); jvalenzuela@niaid.nih.gov (JGV)

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Alan Kelleher

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhuyun Liu

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeroen Pollet

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Elissa M. Hudspeth

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wanderson C. Rezende

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mallory Jo Groen

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christopher A. Seid

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Maha Abdeladhim

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shannon Townsend

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Waldione de Castro

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Antonio Mendes-Sousa

Current address: Universidade Federal do Piaui, Campus Senador Helvidio Nunes de Barros, Picos, Piauí, Brazil

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Daniella Castanheira Bartholomeu

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Affiliations Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

Affiliations Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Bin Zhan

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fabiano Oliveira

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shaden Kamhawi

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jesus G. Valenzuela

asojo@bcm.edu (OAA); jvalenzuela@niaid.nih.gov (JGV)

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, LMVR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OAA JGV PJH MEB. Formal analysis: OAA AK ZL MJG CAS BZ JP EMH WCR JGV MA ST WdC AMS DCB RTF FO SK. Funding acquisition: OAA JGV PJH MEB. Investigation: OAA AK ZL MJG CAS BZ JP EMH WCR MA ST WdC AMS DCB RTF. Methodology: OAA AK ZL MJG CAS BZ JP EMH WCR MA ST WdC AMS. Project administration: OAA JGV PJH MEB. Resources: PJH MEB JGV DCB RTF. Software: WCR EMH OAA JP DCB RTF. Supervision: OAA BZ PJH MEB JGV FO SK DCB RTF. Validation: OAA BZ JP JGV. Visualization: OAA AK ZL MJG CAS BZ JP EMH WCR ST WdC AMS DCB RTF. Writing – original draft: OAA BZ JP CAS AK PJH JGV FO SK. Writing – review & editing: OAA BZ JP CAS AK PJH JGV FO SK.