About the Authors

Uzma Alam

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jan Medlock

Current address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Corey Brelsfoard

Current address: Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Roshan Pais

Current address: Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, Farmington, United States of America

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Claudia Lohs

Current address: Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Séverine Balmand

Affiliation INSA-Lyon, UMR203 BF2I, INRA, Biologie Fonctionnelle Insectes et Interactions, Bat. Louis-Pasteur, Villeurbanne, France

Jozef Carnogursky

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Abdelaziz Heddi

Affiliation INSA-Lyon, UMR203 BF2I, INRA, Biologie Fonctionnelle Insectes et Interactions, Bat. Louis-Pasteur, Villeurbanne, France

Peter Takac

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Alison Galvani

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Serap.Aksoy@yale.edu

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The corresponding author is Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA AG UA JM CB AH PT. Performed the experiments: UA JM CB RP CL JC SB. Analyzed the data: UA JM CB SA AG SB PT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH PT. Wrote the paper: SA UA CB JM.