About the Authors

Kerstin Leykauf

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin Leykauf, Moritz Treeck

Affiliation Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Moritz Treeck

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin Leykauf, Moritz Treeck

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Paul R. Gilson

Affiliation Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Thomas Nebl

Affiliation Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Thomas Braulke

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Alan F. Cowman

Affiliation Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Tim W. Gilberger

crabb@burnet.edu.au (BSC); gilberger@bni-hamburg.de (TWG)

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany, M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Brendan S. Crabb

crabb@burnet.edu.au (BSC); gilberger@bni-hamburg.de (TWG)

Affiliations Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL MT PRG TN TB AFC TWG BSC. Performed the experiments: KL MT TN. Analyzed the data: KL MT PRG TN TB TWG BSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT TB AFC TWG BSC. Wrote the paper: KL PRG TN TWG BSC.