About the Authors

Patrícia Salgueiro

psalgueiro@ihmt.unl.pt

Affiliation Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais/UEI Parasitologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Marta Moreno

Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Medicina Tropical, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Frédéric Simard

Affiliation MIVEGEC (Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Genetique, Evolution et Contrôle), UMR IRD224-CNRS5290-UM1-UM2, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France

David O'Brochta

Affiliation Department of Entomology and The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

João Pinto

Affiliation Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais/UEI Parasitologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

Senior author João Pinto is part of the academic editorial board of PLOS ONE. There are no other competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DOB JP PS. Performed the experiments: PS. Analyzed the data: PS DOB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DOB FS JP MM. Wrote the paper: PS JP.