About the Authors

Arlett Heiber

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Florian Kruse

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Pick

Affiliation Institute of Zoology and Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Christof Grüring

Current address: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Sven Flemming

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Alexander Oberli

Current address: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, 4051 Basel, Switzerland and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Hanno Schoeler

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Silke Retzlaff

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Paolo Mesén-Ramírez

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Jan A. Hiss

Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Zurich, Switzerland

Madhusudan Kadekoppala

Current address: Department of Biotechnology, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.

Affiliation Division of Parasitology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London United Kingdom

Leonie Hecht

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Anthony A. Holder

Affiliation Division of Parasitology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London United Kingdom

Tim-Wolf Gilberger

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

Tobias Spielmann

spielmann@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology Section, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS AH TWG. Performed the experiments: AH FK CG SF AO SR PMR LH HS TS CP JAH. Analyzed the data: TS AH CP JAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK AAH. Wrote the paper: TS AH.