About the Authors

Ute Frevert

Affiliation Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexandru Movila

Affiliation Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Olga V. Nikolskaia

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jayne Raper

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, New York, United States of America

Zachary B. Mackey

Current address: Biochemistry Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Maha Abdulla

Current address: Department of Surgery, King Khalid University Hospital and College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

James McKerrow

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Dennis J. Grab

dgrab1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UF DJG JM. Performed the experiments: UF AM OVN JR ZBM MA DJG. Analyzed the data: UF AM JM DJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UF DJG JM. Wrote the paper: UF DJG ZBM JM.