About the Authors

Andrea Gazzinelli

andreag@ufmg.br

Affiliations Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Doenças Tropicais – INCT-DT, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Doenças Tropicais – INCT-DT, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, FIOCRUZ MG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Guo-Jing Yang

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

Boakye A. Boatin

Affiliation PO Box CT 1380, Accra, Ghana

Helmut Kloos

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.