The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/680/prepub wouldulikeike to thank Dr. Alemayehu Worku for his technical support during analysis, Mr. Abrha Birhane and Ms. Tsige Tesfu for his meticulous support during data collection and the data collectors for their excellent work.
The authors thank Yoonseong Park for his technical assistance with immunohistochemical analysis, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao for providing anti-sand fly Cht8 serum, Ludek Zurek for providing access to the real-time PCR facility and Sharon Starkey for rearing mosquito colonies.
We thank A. Candela for support in the field and in image processing, C. Lama and Dr. J.B. Ortiz for assistance with optical microscopy and M. Arjonilla for his technical assistance in nutrient analysis.
We thank Keith Harsman and the DNA Array Facility of the University of Lausanne for the preparation of the cDNA microarrays; Joel Gyger for his technical help with mouse analysis; Pierre Farmer, Maria Jimenez, Christophe Magan, Monique Guis, Marie-Pierre Pruniaux and Etienne Guillot for useful discussion, comments and suggestions.
We also thank Ernest Cheah H.K from microLAMBDA Sdn Bhd for his technical support in imaging analysis.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/12/141/prepub We are grateful to the patients who took part in the study, Mr. Alojz Tapajner for his technical assistance in data analysis, and Ms. Justi Carey for language editing.
The authors gratefully acknowledge Eddie Mulligan for skilled technical assistance, the farm staff at Teagasc, Grange Livestock Systems Research Department for the care and management of the animals, Margaret Murray for blood analysis and Dr. Matthew McCabe for his technical advice on gene expression analysis.
We thank Dr. Elizabeth Mata, Graciela Cabeza and the staff of the animal room at the Instituto de Biotecnología-UNAM for the handling of laboratory animals, Selene Napsucialy for her help in staining cell walls and in the statistical analysis of the peptidase activity, Gabriel Guillén for his technical assistance in PCR data analysis, and Olivia Santana for her help in plant care.
The author's are grateful to Dr. Ricardo de OliveiraSilva for his technical assistance in the chromatography analysis, and UEPB for financial support.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/14/355/prepub We thank Mr. Pablo Martínez Camblor for his technical support with the statistical analysis.
