About the Authors

Ghalia Boubaker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

ghalia.boubaker@vetsuisse.unibe.ch (GB); bruno.gottstein@ifik.unibe.ch (BG)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Biology B, Laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

Sebastian Strempel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

Affiliation Microsynth AG, Balgach, Switzerland

Andrew Hemphill

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Norbert Müller

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Junhua Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Bruno Gottstein

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ghalia.boubaker@vetsuisse.unibe.ch (GB); bruno.gottstein@ifik.unibe.ch (BG)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Markus Spiliotis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of Würzburg, Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, Würzburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Sebastian Strempel is employee of Microsynth AG.