About the Authors

Swati Agrawal

Contributed equally to this work with: Swati Agrawal, Duk-Won D. Chung

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Duk-Won D. Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Swati Agrawal, Duk-Won D. Chung

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Nadia Ponts

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Giel G. van Dooren

Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Jacques Prudhomme

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Carrie F. Brooks

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Elisadra M. Rodrigues

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

John C. Tan

Affiliation Eck Institute of Global Health, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Michael T. Ferdig

Affiliation Eck Institute of Global Health, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Boris Striepen

striepen@cb.uga.edu (BS); karine.leroch@ucr.edu (KLR)

BS and KGL also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Karine G. Le Roch

striepen@cb.uga.edu (BS); karine.leroch@ucr.edu (KLR)

BS and KGL also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLR BS DDC SA. Performed the experiments: DDC SA JP NP EMR JCT GGvD CFB. Analyzed the data: KLR BS DDC SA NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLR BS MTF. Wrote the paper: BS KLR DDC SA.