About the Authors

Chiara Currà

Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Currà, Jessica Kehrer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece

Jessica Kehrer

Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Currà, Jessica Kehrer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Leandro Lemgruber

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Patricia A. G. C. Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Lucia Bertuccini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Core Facilities, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy, National Center for Innovative Technologies in Public Health, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Fabiana Superti

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Core Facilities, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy, National Center for Innovative Technologies in Public Health, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Tomasino Pace

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Marta Ponzi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Core Facilities, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Friedrich Frischknecht

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Inga Siden-Kiamos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mair@iastate.edu, gunnarmair@yahoo.com (GRM); inga@imbb.forth.gr (IS-K)

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece

Gunnar R. Mair

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mair@iastate.edu, gunnarmair@yahoo.com (GRM); inga@imbb.forth.gr (IS-K)

Affiliations Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany, Instituto Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal, Iowa State University, Biomedical Sciences, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.