About the Authors

Hassan Hakimi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hhakimi@cvm.tamu.edu (HH); masada@obihiro.ac.jp (MA)

Affiliations National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Junya Yamagishi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Shin-ichiro Kawazu

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Masahito Asada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hhakimi@cvm.tamu.edu (HH); masada@obihiro.ac.jp (MA)

Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.