About the Authors

Tao Lin

Tao.Lin@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lihui Gao

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chuhua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Evelyn Odeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mary B. Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Tulane Regional Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Loïc Coutte

Current address: Institut de Biologie de Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

George Chaconas

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mario T. Philipp

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Tulane Regional Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Steven J. Norris

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL LG SJN MTP. Performed the experiments: TL LG CZ EO MBJ. Analyzed the data: TL LG SJN MTP GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL LG SJN LC. Wrote the paper: TL SJN.