About the Authors

Mariane B. Melo

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Quynh P. Nguyen

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cynthia Cordeiro

Affiliations Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Internal Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Musa A. Hassan

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ninghan Yang

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Renée McKell

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emily E. Rosowski

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lindsay Julien

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vincent Butty

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marie-Laure Dardé

Affiliations Centre National de Référence Toxoplasmose/Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center, Centre Hospitalier-Universitaire Dupuytren, Limoges, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France

Daniel Ajzenberg

Affiliations Centre National de Référence Toxoplasmose/Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center, Centre Hospitalier-Universitaire Dupuytren, Limoges, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France

Katherine Fitzgerald

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lucy H. Young

Affiliation Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeroen P. J. Saeij

jsaeij@mit.edu

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBM JPJS. Performed the experiments: MBM QPN CC MAH NY RM EER LJ. Analyzed the data: MBM JPJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VB MLD DA KF LHY. Wrote the paper: MBM JPJS.