About the Authors

Tiemin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiemin Zhang, Dong Yang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Dong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiemin Zhang, Dong Yang

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

Zhaolin Zeng

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Wei Zhao

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

Aiqin Liu

liuaiqin1128@126.com (AL); zhangweizhe526@163.com (WZ)

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

Daxun Piao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Tao Jiang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Jianping Cao

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

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

Hua Liu

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

liuaiqin1128@126.com (AL); zhangweizhe526@163.com (WZ)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL W. Zhang TZ. Performed the experiments: DY TZ. Analyzed the data: DY HL W. Zhao. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ DP TJ JC YS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: W. Zhang AL DY.