About the Authors

Kirsten Gillingwater

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

Carlos Gutierrez

Affiliation Veterinary Faculty of the University of Las Palmas, Arucas, Gran Canaria, Spain

Arlene Bridges

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Huali Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stijn Deborggraeve

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Rosine Ali Ekangu

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa-Gombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Arvind Kumar

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mohamed Ismail

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal University, Hofuf, Saudi Arabia

David Boykin

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Reto Brun

Reto.Brun@unibas.ch

Affiliations Department of 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: KG RB. Performed the experiments: KG CG SD RAE. Analyzed the data: KG AB HW RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG SD AK MI DB. Wrote the paper: KG RB.