About the Authors

Boakye A. Boatin

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre, Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

María-Gloria Basáñez

m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Roger K. Prichard

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Kwablah Awadzi

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Chemotherapy Research Centre, Hohoe Hospital, Hohoe, Ghana

Rashida M. Barakat

Affiliation High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Héctor H. García

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Andrea Gazzinelli

Affiliation Department of Maternal and Child Nursing and Public Health, School of Nursing, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Warwick N. Grant

Affiliation The Nematode Functional Genomics Laboratory, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia

James S. McCarthy

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia

Eliézer K. N'Goran

Affiliation Laboratoire de Zoologie et de Biologie Animale, Université de Cocody, UFR Biosciences, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Mike Y. Osei-Atweneboana

Affiliation Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Environmental Biology and Health, Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana

Banchob Sripa

Affiliation Tropical Disease Research Laboratory, Division of Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Guo-Jing Yang

Affiliation Department of Schistosomiasis Control, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Meiyuan Yangxiang, Wuxi, People's Republic of China

Sara Lustigman

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.