About the Authors

Lucja A. Labuda

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucja A. Labuda, Sanne E. de Jong

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Sanne E. de Jong

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucja A. Labuda, Sanne E. de Jong

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

Lynn Meurs

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Abena S. Amoah

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

Moustapha Mbow

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Immunology Department of the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology of Aristide Le Dantec University Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

Ulysse Ateba-Ngoa

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Alwin J. van der Ham

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

André C. Knulst

Affiliation Department of Dermatology/Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Maria Yazdanbakhsh

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ayola A. Adegnika

a.a.adegnika@medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAL MY AAA. Performed the experiments: LAL LM ASA MM UAN AJH. Analyzed the data: LAL SEJ MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACK MY AAA. Wrote the paper: LAL SEJ MY.