About the Authors

Jessica Kehrer

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Mirko Singer

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Leandro Lemgruber

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Patricia A. G. C. Silva

Affiliation Instituto Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Friedrich Frischknecht

freddy.frischknecht@med.uni-heidelberg.de (FF); gunnarmair@yahoo.com; gunnar.mair@med.uni-heidelberg.de (GRM)

Affiliation Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Gunnar R. Mair

freddy.frischknecht@med.uni-heidelberg.de (FF); gunnarmair@yahoo.com; gunnar.mair@med.uni-heidelberg.de (GRM)

Affiliations Integrative Parasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany, Instituto Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK MS FF GRM. Performed the experiments: JK MS LL PAGCS GRM. Analyzed the data: JK GRM. Wrote the paper: JK FF GRM.