About the Authors
- Luis Eduardo Cuevas
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* E-mail: cuevasl@who.int
Affiliations Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva Switzerland
- Najla Al-Sonboli
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Affiliation Medical Faculty, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
- Lovett Lawson
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Affiliation Zankli Medical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
- Mohammed Ahmed Yassin
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Isabel Arbide
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Affiliation Bushullo Major Health Centre, Awassa, Ethiopia
- Nasher Al-Aghbari
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Affiliation Medical Faculty, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
- Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand
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Affiliation Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Amin Al-Absi
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Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Sana'a, Yemen
- Emmanuel Nnamdi Emenyonu
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Affiliation Zankli Medical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
- Yared Merid
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Affiliation Southern Region Health Bureau, Awassa, Ethiopia
- Mosis Ifenyi Okobi
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Affiliation Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria
- Juliana Olubunmi Onuoha
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Affiliation Zankli Medical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
- Melkamsew Aschalew
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Affiliation Southern Region Health Bureau, Awassa, Ethiopia
- Abraham Aseffa
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Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Greg Harper
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Rachel Mary Anderson de Cuevas
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Sally Jane Theobald
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Carl-Michael Nathanson
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Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva Switzerland
- Jean Joly
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Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva Switzerland
- Brian Faragher
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Stephen Bertel Squire
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Andrew Ramsay
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Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva Switzerland
Competing Interests
Andrew Ramsay is employed by WHO/TDR, the institution administering the grants from USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that funded this work. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: LEC NA-S LL MAY IA NA JBS ANA ENE YM MIO JOB MA AA GH RMA ST C-MN JJ BF SBS AR. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: LEC NA-S LL MAY IA NA JBS ANA ENE YM MIO JOB MA AA GH RMA ST C-MN JJ BF SBS AR. Enrolled patients: NA-S LL IA NA JBS ANA ENE MIO JOB. Conceived and designed the experiments: LEC MAY AR BF. Performed the experiments: NA-S LL IA NA JBS NAA ENE YM MIO JOB MA AA GH. Analyzed the data: LEC MAY AR BF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH C-MN JJ. Wrote the paper: LEC MAY AR SBS RMA ST BF. Acted as field director: NA-S LL IA NAA JBS. Obtained national ethical approval: NA-S LL IA NAA JBS. Facilitated insertion of the study into the National Control Programme: AA MA LL JBS.