About the Authors

Sujittra Chaiyadet

Contributed equally to this work with: Sujittra Chaiyadet, Sirikachorn Tangkawattana, Michael J. Smout, Wannaporn Ittiprasert

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, Tropical Medicine Graduate Program, Academic Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Sirikachorn Tangkawattana

Contributed equally to this work with: Sujittra Chaiyadet, Sirikachorn Tangkawattana, Michael J. Smout, Wannaporn Ittiprasert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, and WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis, Tropical Disease Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Michael J. Smout

Contributed equally to this work with: Sujittra Chaiyadet, Sirikachorn Tangkawattana, Michael J. Smout, Wannaporn Ittiprasert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Wannaporn Ittiprasert

Contributed equally to this work with: Sujittra Chaiyadet, Sirikachorn Tangkawattana, Michael J. Smout, Wannaporn Ittiprasert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Victoria H. Mann

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Raksawan Deenonpoe

Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

Patpicha Arunsan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Alex Loukas

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alex.loukas@jcu.edu.au (AL); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); thewa_la@kku.ac.th (TL)

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

Paul J. Brindley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alex.loukas@jcu.edu.au (AL); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); thewa_la@kku.ac.th (TL)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Thewarach Laha

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alex.loukas@jcu.edu.au (AL); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); thewa_la@kku.ac.th (TL)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.