About the Authors

Jürgen Krücken

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Krücken, Julia Blümke

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Julia Blümke

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Krücken, Julia Blümke

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Denny Maaz

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Janina Demeler

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sabrina Ramünke

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Daniela Antolová

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic

Roland Schaper

Affiliation Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany

Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna

gvsamson@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

RS is an employee of Bayer Animal Health, which is a producer of veterinary antiparasiticides. The commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. As an employee of Bayer Animal Health, which produces and sells antiparasitic products, RS has a competing interest. Since the participation of RS was restricted to the overall conceptualization and funding of the study this competing interest did not in any way influence the conduct of the study or the publishing of its results.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GvSH JB RS JK. Data curation: JB DM JK. Formal analysis: JK JB. Funding acquisition: GvSH RS. Investigation: JB DM SR DA. Methodology: JB DM SR DA JK. Project administration: GvSH. Supervision: GvSH JK. Validation: JB DM SR. Visualization: JK JD. Writing – original draft: JK. Writing – review & editing: JK JB JD DM GvSH.