About the Authors

Viki Bockstal

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, Brussels, Belgium

Patrick Guirnalda

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guy Caljon

Affiliations Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, Brussels, Belgium, Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Radhika Goenka

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Janice C. Telfer

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deborah Frenkel

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Magdalena Radwanska

Affiliation European Cooperation for Science and Technology (COST), Brussels, Belgium

Stefan Magez

sblack@vasci.umass.edu (SJB); stemagez@vub.ac.be (SM)

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, Brussels, Belgium

Samuel J. Black

sblack@vasci.umass.edu (SJB); stemagez@vub.ac.be (SM)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJB VB PG GC JCT MR SM. Performed the experiments: VB PG RG DF. Analyzed the data: SJB VB PG GC RG JCT DF MR SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJB GC SM. Wrote the paper: SJB VB MR SM. Provided half of the required funding: SJB.