About the Authors

Fe Esperanza Espino

fe.espino2012@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Jo-Anne Bibit

Contributed equally to this work with: Jo-Anne Bibit, Benedikt Ley

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Johanna Beulah Sornillo

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Alvin Tan

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Lorenz von Seidlein

Affiliation Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand

Benedikt Ley

Contributed equally to this work with: Jo-Anne Bibit, Benedikt Ley

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Global and Tropical Health Division, Darwin, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FE JB. Performed the experiments: JB JS. Analyzed the data: BL AT JS JB. Wrote the paper: FE BL LVS JB.