About the Authors

Michael J. Smout

Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Javier Sotillo

Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Thewarach Laha

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Atiroch Papatpremsiri

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Gabriel Rinaldi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Rafael N. Pimenta

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Lai Yue Chan

Affiliation The Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Michael S. Johnson

Affiliation Microbial Imaging Facility, The iThree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

Lynne Turnbull

Affiliation Microbial Imaging Facility, The iThree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

Cynthia B. Whitchurch

Affiliation Microbial Imaging Facility, The iThree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

Paul R. Giacomin

Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Corey S. Moran

Affiliation Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Jonathan Golledge

Affiliations Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Norelle Daly

Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Banchob Sripa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Jason P. Mulvenna

Affiliation QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Paul J. Brindley

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul J. Brindley, Alex Loukas

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Alex Loukas

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul J. Brindley, Alex Loukas

Alex.Loukas@jcu.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJS JS TL GR LYC MSJ LT CBW CSM JG JPM PJB AL. Performed the experiments: MJS JS TL GR RNP AP LYC MSJ CSM. Analyzed the data: MJS JS TL LYC MSJ LT CBW RNP GR CSM JPM PJB AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL PRG JPM MSJ LT CBW CSM JG BS ND JPM PJB AL. Wrote the paper: MJS JS TL GR PJB AL.