About the Authors

Aissatou Diawara

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Lesley J. Drake

Affiliation The Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Richard R. Suswillo

† Deceased.

Affiliation The Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Jimmy Kihara

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Donald A. P. Bundy

Affiliation World Bank, Washington D.C., United States of America

Marilyn E. Scott

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Carli Halpenny

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

J. Russell Stothard

Affiliation Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Roger K. Prichard

roger.prichard@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD DAPB RKP. Performed the experiments: AD. Analyzed the data: AD RKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD LJD RRS JK MES CH JRS RKP. Wrote the paper: AD RKP.