About the Authors

Daibin Zhong

Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Xiaoming Wang

Affiliations Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Tielong Xu

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Guofa Zhou

Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Ming-Chieh Lee

Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Joshua A. Hartsel

Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Liwang Cui

Affiliation Department of Entomology, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, United States of America

Bin Zheng

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Guiyun Yan

guiyuny@uci.edu

Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ GY. Performed the experiments: DZ TX GZ YW. Analyzed the data: DZ XW GZ ML GY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW LC BZ. Wrote the paper: DZ XW JH GY.