About the Authors

Noé D. Gómez

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Innocent Safeukui

Affiliation Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Aanuoluwa A. Adelani

Affiliation Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Rita Tewari

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Janardan K. Reddy

Affiliation Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sam Rao

Affiliation Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anthony Holder

Affiliation Division of Parasitology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Pierre Buffet

Affiliation Inserm-UPMC (Paris 6 University) Unité Mixte de Recherche s945, Paris, France

Narla Mohandas

Affiliation New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Kasturi Haldar

khaldar@nd.edu

Affiliation Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NDG IS RT KH. Performed the experiments: NDG IS AAA RT JKR SR. Analyzed the data: NDG IS AAA RT JKR SR KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT. Wrote the paper: NDG IS RT AH PB NM KH.