About the Authors

Nicolas M. B. Brancucci

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Kathrin Witmer

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Christoph Schmid

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Till S. Voss

till.voss@unibas.ch

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMBB KW TSV. Performed the experiments: NMBB KW TSV. Analyzed the data: NMBB KW CS TSV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TSV. Wrote the paper: NMBB TSV.