About the Authors

Chao-Rong Bian

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

Da-Bing Lu

Ludabing@suda.edu.cn

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

Jing Su

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

Xia Zhou

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

Hong-Xiang Zhuge

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

Poppy H. L. Lamberton

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DBL CRB. Performed the experiments: CRB DBL JS XZ HXZh. Analyzed the data: CRB DBL JS PHLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBL XZ HXZh. Wrote the paper: DBL CRB JS PHLL.