About the Authors
- Catherine Bourguinat
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Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
- Sébastien D. S. Pion
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Affiliation Laboratoire de Neuroparasitologie et Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Faculté de Médecine, Limoges Cedex, France
- Joseph Kamgno
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Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Task Force Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Jacques Gardon
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Affiliation UR 24 Epidémiologie et Prévention, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, La Paz, Bolivia
- Brian O. L. Duke
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† Deceased.
Affiliation River Blindness Foundation, Lancaster, United Kingdom
- Michel Boussinesq
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michel Boussinesq, Roger K. Prichard
Affiliation UR 24 Epidémiologie et Prévention, Département Sociétés et Santé, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris Cedex, France
- Roger K. Prichard
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michel Boussinesq, Roger K. Prichard
* E-mail: roger.prichard@mcgill.ca
Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MB RP. Performed the experiments: CB. Analyzed the data: MB RP CB SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB JK JG BD. Wrote the paper: MB RP CB SP JK. Other: Conducted the field trial and provided the Onchocerca material: JK JG BOLD ML.