About the Authors

Marie-Eve Raguenaud

eve_raguenaud@hotmail.com

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Medical Department, Brussels, Belgium

Anna Jansson

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Somalia Mission, Nairobi, Kenya

Veerle Vanlerberghe

Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Geert Van der Auwera

Affiliation Parasitology Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Stijn Deborggraeve

Affiliation Parasitology Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jean-Claude Dujardin

Affiliation Parasitology Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Giannos Orfanos

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Somalia Mission, Nairobi, Kenya

Tony Reid

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Medical Department, Brussels, Belgium

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR AJ VV. Performed the experiments: AJ GVdA SD JD GO. Analyzed the data: MB MR VV GO TR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Gv SD JD. Wrote the paper: MR GVdA SD JD. Other: Revised the article: AJ VV TR MB AJ Conducted diagnosis and species identification: GVdA SD JD.