About the Authors

Michal Sima

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michal-sima@seznam.cz

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Blanka Ferencova

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Tapan Bhattacharyya

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Michael A. Miles

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sergey V. Litvinov

Roles Software

Affiliation Aptum Biologics Ltd, Southampton, United Kingdom

Asrat Hailu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Gad Baneth

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Petr Volf

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

Sergey V. Litvinov is an employee of Aptum Biologics Ltd. Aptum Biologics Ltd. is a participant in the Consortium that produced this work, and provided the software and technology for the sequence analysis, a unique one. Aptum Biologics Ltd. has not involved any patents, consultancy, employment or any other forms of financial affiliation or benefits from this work.