About the Authors

Kojo Yeboah-Antwi

kyantwi@bu.edu

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Portipher Pilingana

Affiliation Chikankata Mission Hospital, Chikankata, Southern Province, Zambia

William B. Macleod

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katherine Semrau

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kazungu Siazeele

Affiliation Chikankata Mission Hospital, Chikankata, Southern Province, Zambia

Penelope Kalesha

Affiliation Child Health Unit, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

Busiku Hamainza

Affiliation National Malaria Control Center, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

Phil Seidenberg

Affiliations Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for International Health and Development-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

Arthur Mazimba

Affiliation Center for International Health and Development-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

Lora Sabin

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen Kamholz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald M. Thea

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Davidson H. Hamer

Affiliations Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

DHH owns shares in Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., a company that makes diagnostic products including a malaria rapid diagnostic test. However, the rapid diagnostic tests we used in this study were not produced by Inverness Medical innovations, Inc.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: KYA PP WBM KS KS PK BH PS AM LS KK DMT DHH. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: KYA PP WBM KS KS PK BH PS AM LS KK DMT DHH. Designed the experiments/the study: KYA PP LS DMT DHH. Analyzed the data: KYA PP WBM KS PK BH PS DHH. Collected data/did experiments for the study: KYA PP KS. Enrolled patients: PP KS. Wrote the first draft of the paper: KYA PK DHH. Contributed to the writing of the paper: KYA PP WBM KS KS PK BH PS LS KK DMT DHH. Responsible for day to day field activities: PP. Contributed to editing the manuscript: AM.