About the Authors

Sung Eun Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung Eun Kim, Jae-Hwan Kim

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Jae-Hwan Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung Eun Kim, Jae-Hwan Kim

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Byung-Hoon Min

Affiliations Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Young Mee Bae

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Sung-Tae Hong

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Min-Ho Choi

mhchoi@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STH MHC. Performed the experiments: SEK JHK. Analyzed the data: BHM YMB STH MHC. Wrote the paper: SEK JHK BHM MHC.