About the Authors

Stefanie Knopp

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Ali F. Mgeni

Affiliation Helminth Control Laboratory Unguja, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zanzibar, Tanzania

I. Simba Khamis

Affiliation Helminth Control Laboratory Unguja, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Peter Steinmann

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

J. Russell Stothard

Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

David Rollinson

Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Hanspeter Marti

Affiliation Department of Medical and Diagnostic Services, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Jürg Utzinger

juerg.utzinger@unibas.ch

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK AFM SK JRS DR HM JU. Performed the experiments: SK AFM SK DR HM. Analyzed the data: SK. Wrote the paper: SK PS JRS DR HM JU.