About the Authors

Zablon Kithinji Njiru

z.njiru@murdoch.edu.au or zknjiru@hotmail.com

Affiliations School of Nursing, Murdoch University, Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia, Trypanosomiasis Research Centre, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kikuyu, Kenya

Andrew Stanislaw John Mikosza

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Tanya Armstrong

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

John Charles Enyaru

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Joseph Mathu Ndung'u

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Cointrin, Switzerland

Andrew Richard Christopher Thompson

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT ZN. Performed the experiments: ZN TA AM JE. Analyzed the data: AT ZN JN TA AM JE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT JN AM. Wrote the paper: ZN JN.