About the Authors

Bao Lige

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Julia D. Romano

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia D. Romano, Vera Sampels

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vera Sampels

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia D. Romano, Vera Sampels

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sabrina Sonda

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Keith A. Joiner

Affiliation Arizona Health Science Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Isabelle Coppens

icoppens@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC. Performed the experiments: BL JDR VS SS. Analyzed the data: BL JDR VS SS KAJ IC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL SS. Wrote the paper: IC.