About the Authors

Soraya Gaze

Contributed equally to this work with: Soraya Gaze, Henry J. McSorley

Affiliation Queensland Tropical Health Alliance and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Henry J. McSorley

Contributed equally to this work with: Soraya Gaze, Henry J. McSorley

Affiliation Queensland Tropical Health Alliance and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

James Daveson

Affiliation Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Di Jones

Affiliation Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jeffrey M. Bethony

Affiliation George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Luciana M. Oliveira

Affiliation George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Richard Speare

Affiliation Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

James S. McCarthy

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Christian R. Engwerda

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

John Croese

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation The Townsville Hospital and James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Alex Loukas

Alex.Loukas@jcu.edu.au

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Queensland Tropical Health Alliance and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG HJM JD JSM JC AL. Performed the experiments: SG HJM JD DJ. Analyzed the data: SG HJM JC AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMB LMO RS CRE. Wrote the paper: SG HM JC AL. commented on drafts of the manuscript: JMB LMO JSM CRE.