About the Authors

Ines Sifaoui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ines.sifaoui@hotmail.com

Affiliations Laboratoire Matériaux-Molécules et Applications, IPEST, Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques, La Marsa, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Atteneri López-Arencibia

Roles Data curation

Affiliation University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Carmen Mª. Martín-Navarro

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

María Reyes-Batlle

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Carolina Wagner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Cátedra de Parasitología, Escuela de Bioanálisis, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Olfa Chiboub

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratoire Matériaux-Molécules et Applications, IPEST, Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques, La Marsa, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Mondher Mejri

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratoire Matériaux-Molécules et Applications, IPEST, Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques, La Marsa, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

Basilio Valladares

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Manef Abderrabba

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratoire Matériaux-Molécules et Applications, IPEST, Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques, La Marsa, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

José E. Piñero

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Jacob Lorenzo-Morales

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, University of La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.