About the Authors

Cristian Koepfli

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Koepfli, Sonja Schoepflin

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sonja Schoepflin

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Koepfli, Sonja Schoepflin

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Michael Bretscher

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Enmoore Lin

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Benson Kiniboro

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Peter A. Zimmerman

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Peter Siba

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Thomas A. Smith

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ivo Mueller

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Ingrid Felger

ingrid.felger@unibas.ch

Affiliations 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: IF IM TAS PAZ PS. Performed the experiments: CK SS EL BK. Analyzed the data: CK SS MB TAS. Wrote the paper: CK SS IF.