About the Authors

Sylvain Biéler

sylvain.bieler@finddx.org

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

Harald Waltenberger

Affiliation Microcoat Biotechnologie GmbH, Bernried, Germany

Michael P. Barrett

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Richard McCulloch

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jeremy C. Mottram

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Mark Carrington

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Wilhelm Schwaeble

Affiliation University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

James McKerrow

Current address: University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Margaret A. Phillips

Affiliation University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Paul A. Michels

Affiliation Christian de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium

Philippe Büscher

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jean-Charles Sanchez

Affiliation Biomedical Proteomics Research Group, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Richard Bishop

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Derrick R. Robinson

Affiliation CNRS UMR-5234, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

James Bangs

Current address: University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael Ferguson

Affiliation University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Barbara Nerima

Affiliation University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland / Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Audrey Albertini

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

Gerd Michel

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

Magdalena Radwandska

Current address: Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon, South Korea

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

Joseph Mathu Ndung’u

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

Competing Interests

HW’s affiliation to MicroCoat Biotechnologie GmbH does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JMN PB. Formal analysis: HW SB. Funding acquisition: JMN MAP JB MF JMK DRR MPB RMC JCM. Investigation: HW. Methodology: JMN PB GM MR HW. Project administration: JMN MR SB HW. Resources: HW MPB RMC JCM MC WS JMK MAP PAM PB JCS RB DRR JB MF BN. Supervision: JMN. Visualization: SB. Writing – original draft: SB JMN. Writing – review & editing: SB JMN HW MPB RMC JCM MC JMK MAP PAM PB JCS DRR JB MF BN AA GM MR.