About the Authors

Mehmet Karakuş

mehmetk1986@yahoo.com

Affiliation Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Izmir, Turkey

Abed Nasereddin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, The Core Research Facility, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Hüseyin Onay

Affiliation Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Izmir, Turkey

Emin Karaca

Affiliation Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Izmir, Turkey

Ahmet Özkeklikçi

Affiliation Dr. Ersin Arslan State Hospital, Microbiology Department, Gaziantep, Turkey

Charles L. Jaffe

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Katrin Kuhls

Affiliation Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Division of Molecular Biotechnology and Functional Genetics, Wildau, Germany

Ahmet Özbilgin

Affiliation Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Manisa, Turkey

Hatice Ertabaklar

Affiliation Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Aydın, Turkey

Samiye Demir

Affiliation Ege University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Izmir, Turkey

Yusuf Özbel

Affiliation Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Izmir, Turkey

Seray Töz

Affiliation Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Izmir, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MK ST YÖ. Data curation: MK KK CLJ AN. Formal analysis: KK MK. Funding acquisition: ST CLJ YÖ. Investigation: MK ST. Methodology: MK KK AN. Project administration: MK YÖ ST CLJ AN. Resources: MK HO EK KK AN AÖzk HE SD AÖzb. Software: KK MK. Supervision: YÖ ST CLJ. Validation: MK ST YÖ. Visualization: MK. Writing – original draft: MK. Writing – review & editing: MK YÖ ST CLJ AN.