About the Authors

Annette Gaida

Contributed equally to this work with: Annette Gaida, Marion M. Becker

Affiliations Department for Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marion M. Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Annette Gaida, Marion M. Becker

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, The University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Christoph D. Schmid

Affiliations Department for Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Tobias Bühlmann

Affiliations Department for Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Edward J. Louis

ed.louis@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, The University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Hans-Peter Beck

Affiliations Department for Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJL HPB. Performed the experiments: AG MMB TB. Analyzed the data: AG MMB CDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJL HPB. Wrote the paper: AG MMB CDS TB EJL HPB.