About the Authors

Mariangela Bonizzoni

mbonizzo@uci.edu

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Yaw Afrane

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

William Augustine Dunn

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Francis K. Atieli

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Goufa Zhou

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Daibin Zhong

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Andrew Githeko

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

Guiyun Yan

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB GY. Performed the experiments: MB GY YA FA DZ. Analyzed the data: MB WAD GZ JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG YA FA. Wrote the paper: MB GY.