About the Authors

Lucien Rufener

Affiliations Novartis Centre de Recherche Santé Animale, St. Aubin, Switzerland, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jennifer Keiser

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ronald Kaminsky

Affiliation Novartis Centre de Recherche Santé Animale, St. Aubin, Switzerland

Pascal Mäser

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Daniel Nilsson

daniel.nilsson@izb.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

L.R. and R.K. are employed by Novartis AH, which has developed monepantel. The use of AADs for veterinary purposes is patented (WO2002049641).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR JK RK PM DN. Performed the experiments: LR JK DN. Analyzed the data: LR JK RK PM DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR JK DN. Wrote the paper: LR JK RK PM DN.