About the Authors

Daniel Addo-Gyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Addo-Gyan, Haruka Matsushita

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Parasitology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Haruka Matsushita

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Addo-Gyan, Haruka Matsushita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Environmental Parasitology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Enya Sora

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Environmental Parasitology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tsubasa Nishi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Medicine, Mie University, Kurimamachi Yacho, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Masao Yuda

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Medicine, Mie University, Kurimamachi Yacho, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Naoaki Shinzawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Environmental Parasitology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shiroh Iwanaga

Roles Conceptualization

iwanaga@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CIDER), Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.