About the Authors

Aiqin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Aiqin Liu, Fengkun Yang

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Fengkun Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Aiqin Liu, Fengkun Yang

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Yujuan Shen

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai, China

Weizhe Zhang

zhangweizhe526@163.com (WZ); caojp@yahoo.com (JC)

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Rongjun Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Wei Zhao

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Longxian Zhang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Hong Ling

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Jianping Cao

zhangweizhe526@163.com (WZ); caojp@yahoo.com (JC)

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W. Zhang JC AL. Performed the experiments: AL FY W. Zhang. Analyzed the data: RW YS W. Zhao. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ HL. Wrote the paper: AL W. Zhang JC.