About the Authors

Catherine Bourguinat

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Sébastien D. S. Pion

Affiliation Laboratoire de Neuroparasitologie et Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Faculté de Médecine, Limoges Cedex, France

Joseph Kamgno

Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Task Force Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Jacques Gardon

Affiliation UR 24 Epidémiologie et Prévention, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, La Paz, Bolivia

Brian O. L. Duke

† Deceased.

Affiliation River Blindness Foundation, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Michel Boussinesq

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Michel Boussinesq, Roger K. Prichard

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.