About the Authors

Wen Wei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Wei Zhang, Gowthaman Ramasamy, Laura-Isobel McCall

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Gowthaman Ramasamy

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Wei Zhang, Gowthaman Ramasamy, Laura-Isobel McCall

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Laura-Isobel McCall

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Wei Zhang, Gowthaman Ramasamy, Laura-Isobel McCall

Current address: Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases and Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Andrew Haydock

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shalindra Ranasinghe

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Sri Lanka

Priyanka Abeygunasekara

Affiliation Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Ganga Sirimanna

Affiliation Dermatology Unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Renu Wickremasinghe

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Sri Lanka

Peter Myler

peter.myler@seattlebiomed.org (PM); greg.matlashewski@mcgill.ca (GM)

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Greg Matlashewski

peter.myler@seattlebiomed.org (PM); greg.matlashewski@mcgill.ca (GM)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Microbiome and Disease Tolerance Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WWZ GR LIM PM GM. Performed the experiments: WWZ GR LIM AH SR PA GS RW. Analyzed the data: WWZ GR LIM RW PM GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GR SR PA GS RW. Wrote the paper: WWZ GR LIM PM GM.